Cardiothoracic Surgery

Robotic Heart Surgery

Did your doctor suggest surgery to treat your heart condition? Are you concerned about your surgery?

We can now avoid more than half of open-heart surgeries and perform these procedures using surgical robots without stopping the heartbeat and without the need to cut the rib cage!

Robot-assisted heart surgery concept appeared recently and received great attention, and intensive efforts are made by hospitals all around the world to train cardiac surgeons to perform surgical procedures using this technology, and only after about one decade of the emergence of this technology, robotic surgery is heading towards becoming the standard of care for the treatment of heart conditions, and instead of performing most of the heart surgeries by the open technique, a lot of surgeons in developed countries have started to use the surgical robot to perform these surgeries.

Open-Heart Surgery

Open-heart surgery is a type of surgery in which the chest cavity is opened and a surgical procedure is performed on a part of the heart or its associated blood vessels.

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is by far the most commonly performed open-heart surgery, but many other cardiac surgical procedures can be performed through open-heart surgery technique.

Nowadays open-heart surgery has become known as traditional heart surgery, due to the emergence of new surgical techniques through which we can operate on the heart without opening the ribcage, using the surgical robot system, and these techniques are collectively known as minimally invasive heart surgery.

Thoracic Surgery

Thoracic surgery is a general term that refers to the surgical specialty that cares for diseases affecting the structures and organs inside the chest, such as the esophagus, the trachea (windpipe), the chest wall, and others.

In new surgical techniques, which are called minimally invasive surgery, small surgical incisions are opened in the chest wall to reach the target organ, and with the use of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) technology the surgeon can operate without opening the chest cavity, but not all patients are considered good candidates for this technique, especially those with complicated disease course and severe conditions.

Vascular Surgery

Vascular surgery is a surgical specialty that needs years of high-level training. Vascular surgery's purpose is to treat vascular conditions and diseases such as the diseases of arteries, veins, and lymphatic vessels. Arteries and veins are pipes that carry blood and oxygen to and from the heart; lymphatics on the other hand regulate body water and help the body to fight infections.

Sometimes problems or malfunctions can happen in this vascular system, most of the time it is problems related to atherosclerosis and narrowing of blood vessels. In those conditions and usually after the failure of conservative treatment, the role of the vascular surgeon comes to treat those problems.