cardiothoracic and cardiovascular surgery (CTVS) is a department of cardiac surgery in which a CTVS-specialized surgeon performed surgery on the heart, lungs, chest, esophagus, and major blood vessels of the body.
Treatment offrered by a CTVS Specialist :
- coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG)
- artificial heart transplant surgery
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
- video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS)
- pediatric cardiac surgery
- Beating heart surgery
- Heart transplantation
- Aortic valve surgery
- Heart valve repair
- Heart valve operations
- Multiple valve replacement
- Thoracic aortic surgery
- Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery
- Minimally invasive aortic valve surgery
- Minimally invasive radial artery harvesting
- Minimally invasive pediatric cardiac surgery
- Endoscopic surgery
- Non-invasive treatment of aortic aneurysms