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Cardiac Surgery

The heart and great vessels: bypass grafting built on the coronary map, valve repair and replacement stitched millimetres from the conduction system, and the physiology of cardiopulmonary bypass, the machine that lends the patient a heart and lungs for an hour.

3 operations in depth5 interactive cases

Backdrop: A cardiac surgery operating room · Pfree2014 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Surgical anatomy

Anatomy

The structures the operations walk past, and the ones they must not injure.

The structures the operations walk past, and the ones they must not injure. Real plates and photographs only; the 3D lab carries the BodyParts3D specimens.

Educational illustration
Anterior view of the heart with the coronary arteries drawn and labelled
Coronary anatomy · anterior view with the left main, LAD, circumflex and right coronary arteries
Educational illustration
Gray's Anatomy plate of the anterior chest wall showing the internal mammary artery and its branches
Conduit anatomy · the internal mammary (thoracic) artery and its branches, Gray's Anatomy plate 522
Educational illustration
Medical illustration of a heart after triple coronary artery bypass grafting, showing the grafted vessels
CABG · a triple bypass illustrated: grafts routed around the diseased segments to the vessels beyond them

Anatomy media needed

No verified anatomical plates are assigned to this specialty’s operations yet. The 3D lab and the danger-zone atlas below still apply.

Open the 3D anatomy lab The danger-zone atlasSurgical approaches

Hub shaped by the Surgical Specialties Lead with the Cardiac surgery reviewer (open seat). Images and videos carry their source; educational use for supervised learning, not clinical guidance.