Organ transplants, including heart, liver, kidney and pancreas, require highly specialized anesthesiology skills.
Pediatric congenital heart surgery is a procedure to correct a structural problem in a child's heart. Learn about this procedure.
A surgical procedure to reroute blood flow around narrowed or blocked coronary arteries.
Heart surgery for heart failure helps repair a variety of heart conditions and disorders.
Cardiac bypass surgery presents special risks related to limited blood flow to the heart. Yale Medicine anesthesiologists have expertise in this area.
A heart valve replacement is a procedure to replace or repair valves that regulate blood flow through the heart. Learn more about this procedure.
Ventricular assist devices (VADs) are mechanical pumps surgically implanted inside the chest to support heart function and blood flow. Learn about these devices.
A “redo“ of a previous heart surgery that corrects heart problems that have developed since the surgery.
Adult congenital heart disease is a type of defect in one or more structures of the heart that occurs before birth. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
A floppy or leaky mitral valve is an underappreciated disease that can be effectively repaired by mitral valve surgeons in specialized centers. Patients generally experience significant improvement in symptoms after surgery and should expect a near normal life expectancy.