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Cardiothoracic surgery
In medicine, the field of (cardio)thoracic surgery or cardiovascular
surgery is involved in the surgical treatment of diseases affecting
organs inside the thorax, i.e. "the chest." In general
it will mean conditions of the heart (cardiovascular disease) and
lungs (lung disease).
A thoracic surgeon will be involved in Coronary Artery
Bypass Graft (CABG), Heart valve, lungvolume reduction, heart- and
lungtransplantation, dysrhythmia and thoracic aortic dissection-operations.
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