Definitions for "Open heart surgery"
Keywords:  cabg, bypass, diverted, graft, coronary
open heart surgery: surgery performed on the opened heart while the bloodstream is diverted through a heart-lung machine. Open-heart procedures include heart valve replacements, coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgeries, and heart transplants.
Heart procedures such as coronary artery bypass graft surgery and valve replacement surgery, which require incision through the chest wall, opening of the heart chambers, and usually use of heart-lung bypass machine.
Opening the heart to operate on its structures; see Cardiopulmonary bypass