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Heart Surgery (Cardiac Surgery)

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Heart surgeons at Lehigh Valley Heart and Vascular Institute perform a wide range of life-saving cardiac surgery procedures. We’re experts at treating aneurysms, faulty heart valves, arrhythmias, heart failure and cardiac tumors.

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The Heart and Vascular Institute is one of the largest cardiovascular programs in Pennsylvania. When appropriate, our heart surgeons partner with interventional cardiologists to perform minimally invasive procedures that correct valve problems or arrhythmias. This approach eases recovery and offers excellent results.

Heart surgery at LVHN can treat a range of cardiovascular problems, including heart valve issues, heart disease and arrhythmias.

Heart surgery at the Heart and Vascular Institute

Dedicated care

When appropriate, your cardiac surgery team partners with thoracic surgeons, cardiologists and experts from Lehigh Valley Heart and Vascular Institute to provide advanced diagnosis and personalized treatments.

Accredited chest pain centers

Four LVHN hospitals are accredited by the American College of Cardiology as chest pain centers. This designation means we provide fast evaluation, diagnosis and treatment. Locations include:

  • Lehigh Valley Hospital–17th Street
  • Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest
  • Lehigh Valley Hospital–Hazleton
  • Lehigh Valley Hospital–Muhlenberg
  • Lehigh Valley Hospital–Schuylkill

Heart services

Specialists at our cardiac rehab program help strengthen your heart after surgery, allowing you to safely return to active living.

Advanced Treatment Options

Lehigh Valley Heart and Vascular Institute offers advanced treatment options, including:

To bypass a blocked artery and improve blood flow, your doctor connects a blood vessel taken from the leg, arm or chest and connects it to arteries in your heart.

Your doctor replaces a damaged heart valve with a mechanical valve or a biological valve made from heart tissue taken from a pig (porcine) or cow (bovine). When appropriate, we perform minimally invasive procedures, including transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and MitraClip®, a device to treat mitral valve regurgitation. Learn more about heart valve treatments available through our Structural Heart Disease Program.

We repair weakened areas of the aorta via open surgery and endovascular approaches using a catheter (thin tube) inserted into an artery or vein. During thoracic endovascular aneurysm repair (TEVAR), your doctor threads catheters into the femoral arteries in the legs to place a stent graft to support the weakened area of the heart.

Your heart surgeon performs ablation treatments, such as the maze procedure, to redirect the heart’s electrical signals and stop heart rhythm problems. We also implant devices such as pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD). Find out more about our Comprehensive Heart Rhythm Management Program.

As part of our Mechanical Circulatory Support Program, our heart surgeons implant devices that help the heart pump blood. These devices include left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) and pacemakers.

When needed, we remove pacemaker leads, or wires, that malfunction or cause problems.

Structural heart disease problems can cause openings, or holes, in the heart. Our surgeons close these openings, known as septal defects and patent foramen ovale (PFO). Find out more about our Structural Heart Disease Program.

This procedure for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (thickened heart muscle) removes excess muscle.

Your surgeon removes an abnormal growth, or tumor, from the heart or heart valves.

When needed, the heart surgery team partners with thoracic surgeons to perform chest, lung and esophageal surgeries. Learn more about thoracic surgery.

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Lehigh Valley Hospital is consistently recognized as high performing on the annual U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings in aortic valve surgery, heart bypass surgery, TAVR and care for conditions including heart attack, heart failure and stroke.
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Exceptional heart care at Lehigh Valley Heart and Vascular Institute

Get excellent care at the region’s largest comprehensive heart and vascular institute. You don’t take chances with a heart condition. You head straight for the best possible care. Lehigh Valley Heart and Vascular Institute is achieving amazing results every day, results that save more lives.
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