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heart surgery

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Noun1.heart surgeryheart surgery - any surgical procedure involving the heart
surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
closed-heart surgery - heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened)
open-heart surgery - heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired


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which is part of the McMaster University medical school), submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Health in 1999 to explore the possibility of doctors performing heart surgery here, Currently, heart surgery and other procedures involving the heart such as angioplasty are performed in London, Hamilton, Toronto and Ottawa.
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