Thoracic Surgery
Thoracic surgery is the term used to describe surgery involving organs in the thorax, including heart-lung transplant, coronary artery bypass surgery, and cardiac valve replacement surgery.
Thoracic Surgery at the Heart Center
Physicians at the Heart Center of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have been performing cardiac thoracic surgery since the 1940s, and helped to pioneer open-heart surgery in North Carolina beginning in the 1950s. Although our patients are increasingly older and with more severe disease, our results following thoracic surgery have remained impressive, largely due to improved techniques, equipment and postoperative care.
We offer the following thoracic surgery services:
- Coronary artery bypass - sometimes referred to as CABG, this thoracic surgery is done to reroute, or "bypass," blood around clogged arteries and improve the supply of blood and oxygen to the heart.
- Valve replacement and repair
- Pulmonary resections
- Great vessel surgery
Learn more about the Heart Center of Wake Forest Baptist and thoracic surgery.