Our Division offers diverse cardiothoracic surgical services.Here is a brief description of some of them:
Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Traditional heart surgery is done by diverting the body’s blood circulation away from the heart and lung and the blood is artificially oxygenated and circulated by a heart-lung machine. This technique allows the heart surgeon to stop and work on the heart while the heart-lung machine keeps the vital organs perfused and thus the patient alive.... read more >>
Surgical Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
Surgical correction under the principle of the Cox-Maze procedure as developed by Dr. James Cox, has been designed to treat people who have chronic atrial fibrillation and had poor results from medications or other types of treatment .... read more >>
Endovascular Stent-graft for Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm
Endovascular aortic surgery is a rapidly evolving technology that has been proven to have significant clinical benefits in the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm (bulging of the largest artery that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body, the aorta). One device is FDA approved for human use in the United States. We are fortunate to have the opportunity to partner with our new peripheral endovascular surgeon, Dr. Chandra Cherukupalli, to offer this new treatment option to patients with thoracic aortic aneurysm... read more >>
Heart Valve Replacement Surgery
The heart has a right side and a left side. The right sided chambers are responsible for pumping the de-oxygenated (used and returned) blood from the body to the lungs where the blood will pick up oxygen from the air that we breathe. The left sided chambers then pump the oxygenated blood from the lungs into the aorta which is the main artery that delivers the blood to the vital organs through its branches. The human heart has four valves to ensure one way flow of the blood through its four chambers... read more >>
Ventricular Remodeling Surgery & Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) Program
There is a great need in the medically underserved area of Brooklyn in which SUNY Downstate Medical Center is located, for the treatment of advanced heart failure. In light of the shortage of donors for heart transplant, and the great number of patients with co-morbidities as contraindications to heart transplant in the patient population of Brooklyn,
there is a great need for an alternative to heart transplant for this sizable population of patients with advanced heart failure. ... read more >>
"Limited Access" Valve Surgery (Thoracoscopic and Robotic)
Heartport, minimally invasive, and port-access approaches can be collectively viewed as “limited access” approaches to heart valve surgery... read more >>
Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery
In 2007 SUNY Downstate Medical Center recruited a new surgical member of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Vinay Tak, M.D.. Dr. Tak was trained by a world renowned thoracic surgeon, Keith Naunheim, M.D., at St. Louis University, where he gained extensive experience in the surgical treatment of malignant (cancerous) and benign (not cancerous) esophageal (of the food pipe) diseases...
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