Surgery

Understanding why the kidneys are injured after cardiac surgery

Florey researchers, in collaboration with practicing clinicians who routinely care for heart surgery patients, have developed a world-first animal model to understand how cardiac surgery requiring the use of a heart-lung ...

Cardiovascular surgery is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. Frequently, it is done to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, coronary artery bypass grafting), correct congenital heart disease, or treat valvular heart disease from various causes including endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease and atherosclerosis. It also includes heart transplantation.

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