Cardiac Surgical Procedures

More than 25,000 heart surgery patients have benefited from Morristown Memorial's exceptional care and attention.

Each year, our cardiac surgeons perform more than 1,200 open-heart surgical procedures, more than any other hospital in the state.

If you need heart surgery, our expert surgeons may perform one of these procedures:

• Coronary Bypass Surgery – The surgeon uses a blood vessel from a patient’s leg, arm, or inner chest to bypass an obstruction in a coronary artery, improving blood flow to the heart. A patient may undergo a single, double, triple, or quadruple bypass, depending on the number of arteries that are blocked.
  
• Minimally Invasive Coronary Surgery – Coronary, Pulmonary Bypass or off pump techniques can be utilized to clear blocked arteries. These techniques, performed by making small incisions, may result in less risk and trauma for patients, and eliminates the need for a heart bypass.
  
• Valve Replacement and Repairs – When possible, surgeons repair any congenital or acquired abnormalities of the heart valves. If the valve cannot be repaired, it is replaced.
  
• Minimally Invasive Valve Replacement and Repairs – Low-risk and less traumatic, minimally invasive valve surgery repairs or replaces a heart valve.
  
• Major Aortic Surgery – Sometimes patients require very complicated operations to treat their symptoms.  Our heart surgeons are among the best in the nation and skilled in all types of surgical interventions.
  
  • Ascending Aorta – Located in the chest, this is the first segment of the aorta and runs from the aortic valve to just past the great vessels.
    
  • Descending Thoracic and Thoracoabdominal – After the aortic arch, the aorta passes downward as the descending aorta, which is divided into the thoracic and abdominal aorta. The thoracic aorta runs from just beyond the great vessels to the diaphragm and supply blood to the chest areas. The thoracoabdominal section of the aorta is located in both the chest and abdomen.
    
  • Transverse Arch – This is the section of the aorta from which the great vessels arise.