Heart and vascular surgery
If your heart or blood vessels have been damaged — by conditions such as heart failure or congenital heart abnormalities — cardiovascular surgeons work to repair them. They may use traditional surgery or minimally invasive approaches, which can enable a faster recovery for you.
Heart surgery in Nashville, Tennessee
We personalize your cardiac treatment plan to improve your quality of life.
TriStar Health's heart and vascular surgeons are experts at complex and routine operations. We offer clinical trials and advanced procedures, such as minimally-invasive and beating heart surgery.
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Understanding where your heart health stands right now is a key to setting yourself up for good health in the future. Our health risk assessment can help you get started.
Understanding where your heart health stands right now is a key to setting yourself up for good health in the future. Our health risk assessment can help you get started.
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Types of heart surgery we offer
Your cardiovascular system is an intricate network that keeps life pumping through you. From specialists in our Aortic Center and High-Risk Valve Clinic, to experts in arrhythmia and heart failure treatment, our collective surgical expertise allows us to provide a wide range of heart and vascular care. Our experienced cardiac surgeons use state-of-the-art techniques and technologies to perform:
- Cardiovascular surgery — surgery on the heart and blood vessels
- Thoracic surgery — surgery on the organs within the chest cavity, including the heart, lungs and esophagus
- Vascular surgery — surgery on the veins and arteries
Our diagnostic and heart surgery options
From catheter procedures to device implantation to surgeries that increase bloodflow, our heart surgeons have a wide range of expertise and are here to help restore your body to normal function.
Nationally recognized heart care
Hospitals in our network have earned acknowledgement for extensive and effective cardiac care methods and procedures. Some of our facilities have received the following designations and recognition:
- Accredited Chest Pain Center with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) designation from the American College of Cardiology
- Blue Distinction recognition from Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
- Primary Stroke Center designation from The Joint Commission
We have also been recognized for our cardiovascular team's “door-to-balloon” time, an emergency metric used to determine the amount of time it takes for a patient experiencing a heart attack to receive an angioplasty balloon procedure to open narrowed arteries. The national guideline for “door-to-balloon” time is 90 minutes and the national average has previously been around 76 minutes. TriStar Health facilities routinely outperform both figures, starting fast, effective treatment in less than 75 minutes.
Diagnostic procedures we offer
To determine when surgical intervention is necessary, we provide a wide range of heart imaging services and diagnostic procedures, including:
- Angiography
- Cardiac calcium scoring
- Cardiac catheterization
- Cardiac stress test
- Echocardiography
- Electrocardiogram
- Electrophysiology studies
- Holter monitoring
- Vascular ultrasound studies
Available cardiovascular procedures
Once a diagnosis has been accurately determined, we can form a proper treatment plan. In addition to adult care, our team of cardiovascular surgeons at TriStar Centennial Children’s Hospital provides children with many of the same types of diagnostic and surgical treatment options as we do for adults. Some of the cardiovascular procedures provide include:
- Coronary angioplasty — nonsurgical procedure that involves opening the narrowed artery with a catheter to allow normal blood flow back to the heart
- Balloon angioplasty — a type of angioplasty that increases blood flow to the heart through a balloon that is inflated to push plaque aside
- Cardiac ablation — a procedure that destroys old and malfunctioning heart tissue producing abnormal electrical signals that cause heart arrhythmias
- Endovascular surgery — minimally-invasive procedure which balloons a narrowed blood vessel to reduce the risk of an aneurysm or other conditions
- Heart stenting — a procedure, similar to a balloon angioplasty, that supports the artery walls that have been widened for increased blood flow and reduction of chest pain
- Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) placement — surgical procedure to implant a device that is battery-operated and assists the left ventricle in pumping blood
- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) — this minimally-invasive surgery repairs the heart valve by wedging an artificial replacement valve that takes over the original valve's job of regulating blood flow
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