Offering patients many benefits, robotic heart surgery can sound too good to be true. If a heart surgery is in your future, you may wonder whether you’re a candidate for this innovative type of surgery. There’s no one-size-fits-all answer to this question! As with any type of surgical procedure, the decision about the type of […]
If you’ve been diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, your cardiologist may recommend septal myectomy to treat the condition. Does that mean you’ll be having open-heart surgery? The short answer is: Maybe, but maybe not. While septal myectomy has traditionally been performed as an open-heart procedure, new innovations in performing the procedure offer a less-invasive option for […]
Heart surgeries that used to require long incisions and months of recovery can now be performed in Gainesville through tiny 8-millimeter incisions – about the diameter of an ink pen – with much faster recovery times. Georgia Heart Institute’s surgeons at Northeast Georgia Physicians Group (NGPG) Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery are now offering minimally-invasive, robotic […]
If you’ve undergone a CABG, or coronary artery bypass grafting, you know it’s a major procedure. But it’s an important one for making sure your heart can continue to function effectively. CABG is performed when plaque builds up in the heart’s blood vessels, cutting off or limiting the flow of blood to and from the […]
Aortic aneurysms were the main cause of death of nearly 10,000 people in 2019 in the U.S. It’s important to know what to look for to detect this condition before it causes problems. The aorta is the main artery carrying blood throughout your body. When an aortic aneurysm occurs, a weak spot in the aorta […]
If you’ve been told you have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, you may wonder what that even means. The first thing to know is that most people who have the condition live a normal, healthy life. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, often simply referenced as HCM, is a type of genetic heart disease that causes the heart muscle to thicken. As […]
Have you ever heard of the mitral valve? Unless you’ve been diagnosed with mitral valve disease, it might be unfamiliar to you. But if you’ve been told you have mitral valve disease – mitral valve regurgitation or mitral valve stenosis – you may wonder what this valve does and what happens when it malfunctions. We’ll […]
If you’ve been told you need a heart bypass, you probably have many questions. That’s only natural when you’re undergoing a major medical procedure. Many patients and their family members have questions about what recovery after a heart bypass looks like. Once the surgical procedure is over, what happens next? Think of it this way: […]
You recently underwent a cardiac catheterization to give your cardiologist a good look at your heart. After the diagnostic procedure, you were told you need to have heart bypass surgery. What does that even mean? You probably know someone who has had a heart bypass. It’s an incredibly common procedure—in fact, around 200,000 of these […]