Closed heart surgery – cardiac surgery

Closed heart surgery:-

Heart is an vital organ, need an extra care to make it pump blood. Cardiac surgery is conducted to correct any deviation in heart structure. Various types of surgeries are conducted to correct heart disorders. we can have an idea of closed heart surgery in this article.

Most of closed heart surgeries are conducted to treat valve stenosis or valvular disorders. Heart has main valves such as tricuspid valve, bicuspid valve, and semi lunar valves.

In closed heart surgery, small incision is made on left chest, and surgery is conducted by listening heart beat. closed heart surgery is conducted to correct mitral valve stenosis. Risk of damaging the valve is high, as there is no visualisation of internal valve structure.

In closed heart surgery, after incision the surgeon places finger in the small opening to mitral valve and corrects mitral valve stenosis.  There is no opening of chest cavity and is known as closed heart surgery.
If finger is not used; knife is used to correct mitral valve stenosis. In development, aortic valve stenosis is also corrected using special cutter. ..