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21 Cards in this Set
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Cardiothoracic |
Suergery treats conditions of the heart, great vessels and lungs cardic |
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Cardiac |
Heart |
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Thoriac |
Lung and chest |
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Cardiopulmonary bypass |
Machine takes over pumping and oxygenating the blood |
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Valvuplasty |
Cardiac surgeons repair damaged heart valves |
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Patent ductus arteriosus |
Congenital defects |
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Coarctation |
Narrowing of the aorta |
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Aneurism |
Bulging, weakening areas of blood vessels that can sometimes burst |
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Arrhythmias |
Artificial cardiac pacemaker |
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Ablation |
Destroys the damaged area of the heart where irregular electrical signals are originating |
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Coronary artery bypass grafting |
A blocked and diseased coronary artery is replaced with a graft of a vessel from another part of the body |
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Balloon angioplasty |
Widen diseased coronary heart arteries disease |
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Stents |
Keep arteries open |
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Transplant |
Replacement of a diseased heart |
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Lobectomies |
Removal of part of the lung that is diseased |
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Video assisted thorascopic (VATS) |
Cuts small hole in chest wall and insert camera into the chest cavity |
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Pneumonectomy |
Removal of diseased lung |
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Esophagogastectomy |
Removal of the cancerous part of the esophagus and reconstruction of the digestive tract |
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Nissan fundoplication |
The upper part of the stomach is stitched around the lower part of the esophagus |
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Achalsia |
The lower part of the esophageal sphincter fails to relax to allow food to pass into the stomach |
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Myotomy |
Cutting the muscle in the lower esophageal sphincter |
