NKC Health Heart & Lung Surgery

The skilled surgeons at NKC Health Heart & Lung Surgery offer advanced treatment for heart disease, such as open heart surgery. The cardiothoracic surgeons work closely with our cardiologists to provide our patients nationally recognized heart care services close to home.

Heart Surgeries at NKC Health

Access a range of cardiothoracic surgery and procedures, such as: 

• Aneurysm surgery
• Aortic dissection repair and root replacement
• Aortic Valve Surgery
• Closure of an atrial septal defect
• Congenital cardiac defect repair
• Maze surgery
• Off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB)
• Open heart surgery
• Transmyocardial revascularization (TMR)
• Valve repair or replacement

Thoracic surgeries at NKC Health

• Bleb resection
• Chest wall resection
• Decortication
• Diaphragm plication
• Video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) sympathectomy
• Lobectomy
• Mediastinoscopy
• Mediastinotomy
• Pneumonectomy
• Robotic lung resections
• Treatment for hyperhidrosis
• Thoracotomy
• Thymectomy
• Segmentectomy
• Lung cancer surgery
• VATS lung resections