Cardiothoracic Flashcards
1
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Heart Anatomy
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2
Q
What can surgeons do for Heart problems - 3things
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Excise
Repair
Replace
3
Q
Locations of oronary arteries
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4
Q
Surgery for coornary artery disease
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- Types grafts - vein or arterial
- Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass
5
Q
Types valve disease
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- Valve disease- Stenosis, reurgitation, prolapse
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6
Q
Surgical intervention for cardiac muscle
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- Failing muscle (geart failure), hypertrophic muscle, tumours, aneurysms
- Heart trnapslant
- Long term LVAD
- Hypertorphic + aneurysms - bioventrix device for percutaneous LFaneursym repair
- Other - Aneurysectomy, surger for hypertrophy, myoctomy and septal reductioN, PERCUTANEOUS ALCOHOLS EPTAL ABLATION

7
Q
cpnstrictive pericarditis surgery
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Pericardiectomy in cosntrictive pericarditis
8
Q
What is mustard repair
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For trnasposiiton of great arteries