Cardiovascular Surgery
Institut Cardiològic
The Cardiovascular Surgery Unit has pioneered the application of advanced techniques, and works with prestigious specialists for the treatment of cardiovascular pathologies.
Principal interventions in cardiac surgery
· Valve surgery: heart-valve repair, heart-valve correction surgery, heart-valve rings, heart-valve replacement. New mechanical prosthesis, endovascular prostheses. New bioprothesis, ring-free mitral valve repair, homotransplantation.
· Coronary surgery (bypass): different approaches: artery transplant surgery, surgery with pumpless bypass, automatic anastomosis.
· Aorta surgery: aortic expansion, aortic ulcer, aneurysms, aortic dissection, partial or complete substitution
· Surgery of congenital malformations
· Minimal invasive surgery: minimal thoracic incision, single-port surgery
· Surgical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias: surgical ablation for cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac stimulation, unicameral, bicameral or tricameral pacemakers.
· Surgical treatment of asymmetric septal hypertrophy
· Heart tumour
· Pericardium surgery