Procedures designed to help to insure adequate supply of blood and oxygen to the heart muscle fall under the scope of cardiac surgery. Some of the most common heart surgeries include procedures from non-invasive heart surgery to open heart surgery, such as:

Prosthetic Heart valve Replacement surgery is a treatment procedure that repairs or replaces diseased or malfunctioning heart valves. In most cases, mechanical or prosthetic heart valves are used to replace faulty valves.

Angioplasty is a procedure that is also known as balloon angioplasty. The procedure restores blood flow through the damaged artery.

Coronary artery bypass surgery employs the use of a section of vein or artery, typically from the leg, to bypass the damaged portion of artery above and below an area of blockage.

Pacemakers are small electronic or battery-operated device placed underneath the skin of the abdomen or chest to help control abnormal heart rhythms. Wires connect the heart with this generator and sense of electrical pulses the help to correct and regulate heart rhythm.

Heart transplantation replaces the entire heart muscle. The procedure requires precise timing to ensure that the donor heart tissues remain healthy prior to transplantation.

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