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Heart Disease: Surgical ProceduresOperations to stop further heart damage and improve functionality are done to improve health and extend life for people with heart diseases. The operating surgeon can best explain the procedure and recovery period.Bypass surgeryThe most common surgery for heart failure, bypass surgery is a procedure to circumvent a blocked heart artery.Heart valve surgeryAs heart failure progresses, the heart valves that normally take blood to the rest of the body from the heart stretch out of shape.A replacement valve may be repaired or replaced with one taken from another human heart (cadaver valve), a pig (porcine valve) or it can be a mechanical one.Infarct exclusion surgery (Modified Dor or Dor Procedure)A heart attack occurring in the left ventricle (left lower pumping chamber of the heart) can form a scar. The scarred area can bulge out with each beat, becoming an aneurysm. A heart surgeon can remove the infarcted (dead) area of heart tissue or the aneurysm.Left ventricular assist device (LVAD)The LVAD is implanted to help your heart pump blood throughout your body. It allows mobility and might allow you to return home to await a heart transplant.Heart transplantOnly considered when severe heart failure does not respond to any other treatment, but the person is otherwise in good health. |
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