Services
UF Health Cardiothoracic Surgery offers a wide array of surgical treatments for conditions of the heart, lungs, esophagus and other areas of the chest. Surgical specialties include:
- Aortic disease, including thoracic aortic aneurysm
- Repair of aortic dissections and aneurysms
- Endovascular aortic aneurysm repair
- Arrhythmia
- Maze procedure for atrial fibrillation
- Convergent procedure for atrial fibrillation
- Coronary artery anomalies
- Anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the left
- Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery
- Coronary heart disease
- Coronary artery bypass graft
- Multiple artery revascularization
- Complex redo coronary artery bypass surgery
- Transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMR)
- Heart valve disease
- Valve repair surgery
- Minimally invasive valve repair or replacement
- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
- Minimally invasive and robot-assisted cardiac surgery
- Minimally invasive and robot-assisted thoracic surgery
- Robotic lung resections
- Robotic chest tumor resections
- Robotic lung biopsies
- Thoracic oncology
- Lung cancer
- Esophageal (esophagus) cancer
- Mesothelioma (cancer of the lung lining)
- Abnormal thoracic growths
- Metastatic tumors of the chest (a cancer that has spread to the chest from another site)
- Other procedures
- Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement through 3-cm. incision in right upper chest
- Minimally invasive mitral valve repair or replacement through 3-cm. incision in right axilla
- Minimally invasive tricuspid valve repair or replacement
- Minimally invasive myxoma removal
- Minimally invasive atrial septal defect (ASD) repair
- Complex aortic surgery
- Complex redo coronary artery bypass or valve surgery
- Repair of aortic dissections and aneurysms