HEART SURGERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heart surgery mean? 

• HEART SURGERY (noun)
  The noun HEART SURGERY has 1 sense:

1. any surgical procedure involving the heart

  Familiarity information: HEART SURGERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEART SURGERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any surgical procedure involving the heart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("heart surgery" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heart surgery"):

closed-heart surgery (heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened))

open-heart surgery (heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired)

 Context examples 

Heart surgery has risks, even though its results often are excellent.

(Heart Surgery, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The only current treatment for stenosis is valve replacement, which typically requires risky and expensive open-heart surgery.

(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It can be from a virus or other infection, a heart attack, heart surgery, other medical conditions, injuries, and certain medicines.

(Pericardial Disorders, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

It usually occurs during myocardial infarction, after heart surgery, or in digitalis intoxication.

(Junctional Tachycardia by ECG Finding, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Heart surgery can correct problems with the heart if other treatments haven't worked or can't be used.

(Heart Surgery, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The most common type of heart surgery for adults is coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).

(Heart Surgery, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Doctors also use heart surgery to: • Repair or replace heart valves, which control blood flow through the heart • Repair abnormal or damaged structures in the heart • Implant medical devices that help control the heartbeat or support heart function and blood flow • Replace a damaged heart with a healthy heart from a donor • Treat heart failure and coronary heart disease • Control abnormal heart rhythms

(Heart Surgery, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)