Open heart surgery

Introduction: Open heart surgery

Description of Open heart surgery

Open heart surgery: operative procedure(s) performed on or within the exposed heart, usually with cardiopulmonary bypass.
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Open heart surgery: heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open and surgery to fix a heart valve or repair a coronary artery is performed while the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine.
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Open heart surgery: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Open heart surgery:

• Heart surgery
• Open
• Heart
• Surgery

Terms associated with Open heart surgery:

More specific terms for Open heart surgery:

• coronary bypass
• coronary bypass surgery
• coronary artery bypass graft
• CABG

Source - WordNet 2.1

Broader terms for Open heart surgery

• heart surgery

Source - WordNet 2.1

Hierarchical classifications of Open heart surgery

The following list attempts to classify Open heart surgery into categories where each line is subset of the next.

WordNet 2.1

• heart surgery
• operation,surgery,surgical operation,surgical procedure,surgical process
• medical procedure
• procedure,process
• activity
• act,human action,human activity

Source: WordNet 2.1

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