Some Essential Facts about Heart Surgery

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Some Essential Facts about Heart Surgery The
Potential Reasons, Procedure Involved and
associated Risks
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Understanding the procedure
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• Definition
• Open heart surgery is performed to repair a fault
  or damage in the heart.
• In the course of this procedure, the chest is cut
  open and surgery is performed on the muscles
  valves or arteries of the heart.

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How is it performed ?
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• Cardiac surgeon grafts a healthy vein or
  artery on the obstructed coronary heart artery.
  As a result of which, the grafted artery allows
  to bypass the blocked artery which in turn helps
  to bring fresh blood from the heart to all the
  parts of the body.

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The basic steps of the procedure
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• Step 1
• After the patient is given general anesthesia and
  put to rest, the surgeon makes an 8 to 10 inch
  cut in the patient's chest. this cut goes
  through the patient's breastbone to expose the
  heart.
• Step 2
• Once the heart can be seen, heart-to-lung bypass
  machine is connected to the patient. This machine
  clears the heart from blood or a while in order
  to allow the surgeon to operate.

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• Step 3 Then, the heart surgeon make use of a
  healthy vein or artery to pave a fresh path
  around the blocked artery. Further, the surgeon
  closes the breastbone with wire, leaving the wire
  inside the body. Finally, the original incision
  is stitched up.

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Who needs an open heart surgery
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Open heart surgery is carried out on patients
suffering from

• Congenital disease
• Ischemic heart disease
• Rheumatic heart disease
• Valvular heart disease
• Aneurysm of the blood vessels, and
  atherosclerosis.

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Potential reasons for conducting an Open Heart
Surgery
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Open Heart Surgery is conducted for a host of
reasons such as

• 1. Repair or replace clogged heart valves
• 2. Repair the heart's damaged or
  abnormally-functioning regions
• 3. Position medical devices
• 4. Substitute an impaired heart with a donated
  heart.

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Associated risks
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• 1. Infection can be caused in the operated
  region this risk is higher in patients dealing
  with diabetes and obesity.
• 2. Chest pain, irregular heartbeat, fever,
  stroke, and neurological problems.
• 3. Memory loss, blood loss, blood clot and
  pneumonia.

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• Contact Details-
• MedMonks Medicare Pvt. Ltd.
• Address 706, Pearls Business Park
• Netaji Subhash Place, NSP,
• New Delhi 110034
• Ph No 91-7683088559
• Email wecare_at_medmonks.com, medmonks_at_gmail.com
• Website https//medmonks.com/heart-surgery-india

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