Cardiothoracic Surgery
Cardiothoracic surgery is the surgical treatment of organs inside the thoracic cavity — generally conditions affecting the heart, lungs and esophagus.
Our cardiothoracic surgeons offer a wide range of heart and lung surgery for cardiovascular and thoracic diseases in adult patients.
Heart
Cardiac surgery includes open, minimally invasive and transcatheter approaches to treatment.
Our providers offer:
- Treatment for ischemic heart disease, using coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and high risk myocardial revascularization
- Treatment for structural heart & valve disease
- Aortic valve procedures (repair/replacement)
- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
- Mitral valve procedures (repair/replacement)
- Tricuspid valve procedures (repair/replacement)
Thoracic
Each year there are approximately 180,000 new cases of lung cancer, one of the nation’s leading causes of death among cancer patients.
Our thoracic surgeons treat lung/thoracic conditions using robotic-assisted surgery, thoracoscopic surgery and open surgery.
The surgeons at Grandview Health focus on:
Chest wall and diaphragm disease
- Treatment for benign or malignant lesion
- Treatment for congenital or acquired diaphragmatic hernia
- Treatment for hiatal/paraesophageal hernia
- Rib plating
Diseases of the pleura
- Treatment for pneumothorax
- Treatment for pleural effusion
- Pleural biopsies
Lung disease
- Treatment for lung nodule/mass/malignancy
- Treatment for bronchopleural fistula
- Lung volume reduction surgery
- Treatment for refractory infection
- Treatment for lung sequestration
- Treatment for recurrent pneumothorax
Mediastinum
- Treatment for myasthenia gravis or thymic tumors
- Mediastinal lymph node biopsies
- Mediastinal mass excision
- Treatment for pericardial cysts
- Pericardial effusion
- Bronchial interventions
Esophagus
- Treatment for diverticulum/benign tumor
- Myotomy for achalasia
- Esophagectomy for cancer
- Stents