Cardiothoracic Surgeon – Master of all trades
The surgeries are performed to treat thoracic organs like the heart, lungs, and esophagus, other organs in the chest.
Diseases of the heart and thorax or chest are first diagnosed by a physician and demand for heart specialists. When needed and escalated further to experts specializing in cardiothoracic surgeries, the role of a cardiothoracic surgeon comes into the picture. By the way, this is where all the action is happening!
These are highly qualified, specially trained experts who might involve vascular as well as thoracic surgery. One can expect a cardiothoracic surgeon to show his expertise in the varied cases in the following ways:
- Repair chest wall when deformed
- Heart valves leaked or blocked
- Thoracic organ diseases or abnormalities
- Abnormal enlargement of the arteries
- Lungs, chest, esophagus, and heart diseases
- Collapsed or damaged thoracic organs
- Intensive care patients monitoring
Now sometimes we call someone a cardiothoracic surgeon and sometimes we hear cardiac surgeons. Often this nomenclature leaves us perplexed and confused when looking for a doctor for Thoracic surgery in Delhi NCR. Let's dive in to understand their differences:
- First and the most obvious by its name, a cardiac surgeon will deal with heart problems alone, whereas a cardiothoracic surgeon deals with various organs in the thorax including the heart.
- Cardiothoracic surgeons will mostly perform surgeries that are invasive while cardiologists are the ones conducting minimally invasive ones.
- Cardiologists will do everything from a diagnosis of a disorder to performing an intervention on the heart but can’t do open-heart surgery.
- Follow-up by a cardiac surgeon will always be longer involving post-operative care and monitoring of the conditions.
According to Dr. Amit Chaudhary -Associate Director - Cardio Thoracic & Vascular Surgery- Asian Hospital Faridabad M.Ch, MRCS (U.K), Fellow (Pediatric Surgery- U.K.), MS (Surgery) - A Cardiothoracic surgery can perform under varied circumstances including:
- Treatment of heart failure through ventricular assist device insertion.
- Heart transplants
- Blood flow restoration to the heart
- Coronary artery disease (CAD) treatment
- Correcting irregular heart rates and rhythms
- Repair and replacement of damaged or diseased heart valves
Dr. Amit is regarded as the best cardiothoracic surgeon in the Delhi NCR.
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