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Cardiac Surgery |
Acting Director USUI, Akihiko (Associate Professor) 3E |
We protect your heart with our 24-hour-available team medical care system |
We annually perform about 250 surgeries for acquired heart disease and thoracic aortic disease. |
We provide 24-hour quick response service with our team medical care system consisting of 13 staff members; an on-duty doctor is always available both during the day shift and the night shift.
Valvular heart disease (aortic stenosis / regurgitation, mitral stenosis / regurgitation), ischemic heart disease, thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm, adult congenital heart disease, and arrhythmia.
Aortic arch surgery and thoracoabdominal aortic surgery requiring protection of the brain and spinal cord, mitral valve repair and aortic valve sparing operation, CABG using arterial grafts, surgery for atrial fibrillation, and beating-heart surgery for severe heart failure.
We perform about 300 surgeries of cardiac and thoracic major vessels including surgeries for cardiac valvulopathy in about 80 patients, coronary artery bypass surgeries in about 100 patients, and surgeries of the thoracic aorta in about 100 patients. The surgical mortality rate of 1,172 patients undergoing surgery in the last five years is 1.7 %.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday: acquired heart disease and aortic disease
1st and 3rd Thursday: pacemaker clinic
We use a ventricular assist device for severe heart failure, and perform hybrid therapy for thoracic aortic aneurysm combining blood vessel prosthesis implantation with stenting.