Cardiothoracic surgery
In medicine, the field of (cardio)thoracic surgery or cardiovascular surgery is involved in the surgical treatment of diseases affecting the heart (cardiovascular disease) and lungs (lung disease).
Procedures:
- Heart
- Coronary artery bypass surgery
- Valve replacement
- Congenital heart disease
- Pulmonology
- Mediastinoscopy
- Video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS)
- Lobectomy (e.g. for lung cancer)
- Bullectomy (for a bulla in emphysema)
| Health science – Medicine |
| Anesthesiology – Dermatology – Emergency Medicine – General practice – Intensive care medicine – Internal medicine – Neurology – Obstetrics & Gynecology – Pediatrics – Podiatry – Public Health & Occupational Medicine – Psychiatry – Radiology – Surgery |
| Branches of Internal medicine |
| Cardiology – Endocrinology – Gastroenterology – Hematology – Infectious diseases – Nephrology – Oncology – Pulmonology – Rheumatology |
| Branches of Surgery |
| General surgery – Cardiothoracic surgery – Neurosurgery – Ophthalmology – Orthopedic surgery – Otolaryngology (ENT) – Plastic surgery – Podiatric surgery – Urology – Vascular surgery |
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