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Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Information:
A pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon is a surgeon who performs cardiac surgery (operative procedures on the heart and great vessels) of children. One should see a pediatric surgeon if they have a child in need of surgery performed on the heart or major blood vessels surrounding the heart. The treat conditions such as Coronary heart disease, hole in ones heart and clogged arteries.Some procedures are:
- Angioplasty
- Bypass/Coronary artery bypass
- Valve repair - Mitral valve repair, Valvuloplasty (aortic, mitral)
- Valve replacement - Aortic valve replacement (Ross procedure)
- Mitral valve replacement
- Bentall procedure
- Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy
- Valve-sparing aortic root replacement
- Cardiomyoplasty
- Dor procedure
- Heart transplantation
- Septal myectomy
- Ventricular reduction
- Alcohol septal ablation
- Pericardiocentesis
- Pericardiectomy
- Pericardial window
- Atrial septostomy
- Blalock-Taussig shunt
- Fontan procedure
- Norwood procedure
- Rastelli procedure
- Kawashima procedure
- Jatene procedure
- Mustard procedure
- Glenn procedure
- Blalock-Hanlon procedure
- Balloon septostomy
- Maze procedure (Cox maze and minimaze)
- Pacemaker insertion
- Catheter ablation
- Bruce Protocol
- Cardiac stress test
- Echocardiography
- Cardiotocography
- Electrocardiography
- Electrophysiology study
- Myocardial perfusion imaging
- Cardiac catheterization/Coronary catheterization
- Heart function tests
- Impedance cardiography
- Ballistocardiography
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