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Alain Carpentier
Alain Carpentier, born 1933 in Toulouse, is a French cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered mitral valve repair, developed tissue heart valves, and invented the Carmat artificial heart.
Annuloplasty
Annuloplasty, including tricuspid annuloplasty, is a cardiac surgical technique that narrows a dilated heart valve annulus with a prosthetic ring or band, restoring leaflet coaptation to correct valve regurgitation.
Aortic arch reconstruction
Aortic arch reconstruction is an open cardiovascular operation that repairs or replaces the aortic arch, most often with a prosthetic graft and hypothermic circulatory arrest, for aneurysm and dissection.
Aortic arch repair
Aortic arch repair is a cardiac operation that reconstructs or replaces the transverse aortic arch, using hypothermic circulatory arrest and reimplanted branch vessels to treat aneurysm and dissection.
Aortic valvuloplasty
Aortic valvuloplasty, also known as balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV), is a catheter-based procedure that dilates a narrowed aortic valve with an inflated balloon, relieving aortic stenosis without open surgery.
Arterial switch operation
The arterial switch operation (ASO), also called the arterial switch procedure, is an open-heart operation that corrects dextro-transposition of the great arteries by reconnecting the aorta and pulmonary artery, first performed successfully in 1975.
Atrial flutter ablation
Atrial flutter ablation is a catheter procedure that destroys a small strip of right atrial tissue to interrupt the electrical circuit driving atrial flutter, with about 91% acute success.
Atrioventricular node ablation
Atrioventricular node ablation is a catheter procedure that destroys the AV node to permanently control rapid ventricular rates in atrial fibrillation, requiring lifelong pacemaker dependence.
Balloon ablation
Balloon ablation is a catheter-based cardiac ablation technique in which an inflatable balloon delivers cryothermal or radiofrequency energy to isolate the pulmonary veins for atrial fibrillation.
Balloon valvuloplasty
Balloon valvuloplasty is a catheter procedure that inflates a balloon across a narrowed heart valve to widen it, first-line for pulmonary and rheumatic mitral stenosis.
Bentall procedure
The Bentall procedure is a cardiac operation that replaces the aortic valve, aortic root, and ascending aorta with a single composite valved conduit, first performed in 1968.
Bilobectomy
Bilobectomy is a thoracic surgical procedure removing two adjacent lobes of one lung, essentially a right-sided operation, first performed by Churchill in 1933 to treat lung cancer.
Biventricular repair
Biventricular repair is a surgical strategy in congenital heart disease that establishes a two-ventricle circulation, used when ventricle size and valve adequacy make it feasible.
Bullectomy
Bullectomy is a thoracic surgical procedure that removes giant emphysematous bullae, air spaces filling a third or more of the chest, so compressed lung can re-expand and breathing improves in emphysema.
Cardiac Surgical Procedures
Cardiac surgical procedures (MeSH D006348) are operations on the heart: CABG, valve repair and replacement, congenital repairs, and transplantation. Field began with Rehn's 1896 wound repair; Gibbon's 1953 heart-lung machine enabled open-heart surgery.
Cardiomyoplasty
Cardiomyoplasty (dynamic cardiomyoplasty): surgery wrapping stimulated latissimus dorsi muscle around the failing heart, first performed 1985 in Paris by Carpentier and Chachques; improved symptoms but was abandoned for inconsistent hemodynamic benefit.
Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation
Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation, also known as atrial fibrillation ablation, is a cardiac electrophysiology procedure that uses catheter-delivered energy to electrically isolate the pulmonary veins and suppress AF.
Cavotricuspid isthmus ablation
Cavotricuspid isthmus (CTI) ablation is a catheter procedure that cures typical atrial flutter by creating a line of scar tissue across the right atrial isthmus, with about 91% acute success.
Chest wall reconstruction
Chest wall reconstruction is the surgical restoration of skeletal stability, airtight closure, and soft-tissue coverage of the chest wall after tumor resection, trauma, infection, or correction of congenital defects.
Chest wall resection
Chest wall resection is the removal of a full-thickness portion of the chest wall, including muscle and bone, performed mainly for tumors and followed by reconstruction.
Claude Beck
Claude Schaeffer Beck (1894–1971) was an American cardiac surgeon in Cleveland who performed the first successful human defibrillation in 1947 and described Beck's triad of cardiac tamponade.
Coarctation repair
Coarctation repair is the surgical or catheter-based correction of coarctation of the aorta, a congenital narrowing of the aortic isthmus accounting for up to 8% of congenital heart disease.
Collapse Therapy
Collapse therapy: historical surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis immobilizing the lung (artificial pneumothorax, thoracoplasty, plombage) so lesions rest and heal; obsolete after 1940s chemotherapy, revived for drug-resistant TB.
Commissurotomy
Commissurotomy, also known as mitral commissurotomy, is a surgical or catheter-based procedure that splits the fused leaflets of a stenotic heart valve, most often the rheumatic mitral valve, to restore blood flow.
Coronary angioplasty
Coronary angioplasty, now usually called percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), is a catheter-based procedure that widens a narrowed coronary artery, usually placing a stent to keep it open.
Coronary atherectomy
Coronary atherectomy is a catheter-based procedure that removes or ablates atherosclerotic plaque from coronary arteries, used mainly to modify severely calcified lesions so a stent can be delivered.
Cross-circulation (surgery)
Cross-circulation is a surgical technique in which a second person, usually a parent, served as the living oxygenator for a child undergoing open-heart surgery at the University of Minnesota from 1954.
Cryoballoon ablation
Cryoballoon ablation is a catheter-based cardiac procedure in which a balloon cooled to −80 °C by nitrous oxide freezes heart tissue around the pulmonary veins, treating atrial fibrillation in a single application.
Decortication
Decortication is a thoracic surgical procedure that removes the thick fibrous peel encasing a restricted lung so it can re-expand, used for organized empyema, trapped lung, and hemothorax.
Elephant trunk technique
The elephant trunk technique is a staged cardiac surgery approach for extensive aortic disease, introduced by Borst and colleagues in 1983, leaving a graft segment for later completion.