#heart_surgery__heartsurgery any surgical procedure involving the heart
supertype: #surgical_operation__operation__surgery__surgical_procedure__surgical_process a therapeutic procedure with instruments to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
subtype: #closed-heart_surgery heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened)
subtype: #port-access_coronary_bypass_surgery heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed by the use of small instruments and tiny cameras threaded through small incisions while the heart is stopped and blood is pumped through a heart-lung machine
subtype: #minimally_invasive_coronary_bypass_surgery heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed on the beating heart by the use of small instruments and cameras threaded through small incisions
subtype: #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
subtype: #coronary_bypass_surgery__coronary_bypass__coronary_artery_bypass_graft__CABG open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart
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