Surgery and Anaesthesia

Cardiothoracic surgery

Cardiothoracic surgery treats conditions within the heart, lungs, and chest. Our surgeons perform a spread of cardiothoracic surgeries, from minimally invasive to heart transplants. Modern surgery has developed to certain range that the body of data and technical skills needed have led to surgeons specializing particularly areas, sometimes anatomical space of the body or sometimes during a specific technique or type of patient. The term cardiothoracic means that "pertaining to the heart and chest." The term comes from the Greek word "kardiakos" which suggests concerning the heart and "thorac" that is Latin for chest. Generally terms, the term refers to the chest. While the term refers to the chest as an entire, in medicine it's most frequently utilized in the context of surgery.