The thoracic and cardiovascular (TCV) surgery program at the Shands Cardiovascular Center at the University of Florida specializes in providing surgical care for:

• Pediatric congenital heart defects
• Adult aortic surgeries
• Valve replacements
• High risk coronary artery bypass grafting in women patients
• High-risk patients
• Patients with previous by-pass surgery.

UF TCV surgery patients have the lowest mortality rate in pediatric open-heart surgery in the United States. Shands Cardiovascular Center at UF is also one of the few medical centers statewide with the availability of bi-ventricular assist devices that can be surgically placed during or before surgery to support individuals prior to or after transplantation, high-risk bypass or valve surgeries. The TCV surgery team also plays an integral role in heart and lung transplantation.

Unique TCV devices, technology and a team of research physicians and nurses enable TCV surgeons to perform the following procedures:

• Adult aortic surgeries including dissecting aneurysms, aneurysm repairs, treating complex aortic disease, aortic valve repairs, double and triple valve repairs
• Bi-ventricular assist devices
• Implantable ventricular assist devices
• Coronary artery bypass grafts for high risk patients
• Mini-coronary artery bypass grafts via thoracotomy
• Tetrology of Fallot repairs including Fontans, Hemi-Fontans for hypoplastic heart patients
• Valve replacements
• Heart transplantation - initial post-op recovery
• Pediatric/neonatal heart transplantation - initial post-op recovery
• Adult/pediatric lung transplantation including single, single -bilateral and double lung transplants - initial post-op recovery
• Eloesser flaps that are not performed in many facilities
• Partial lung resections
• Lobectomies
• Pleurodesis
• Pneumonectomies
• Wedge resections
• Treatment of difficult-to-repair bronchopleural fistulas, chronic empyema, low ejection fractions, congenital heart defects, spontaneous pneumothoraces, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, and patients refusing blood products

Information
For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call (800) 749-7424 or (352) 265-8000.

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Make an Appointment

To make an appointment or find out more information about heart care services offered at Shands at the University of Florida, please call 352.265.8000 or toll-free 1.800.749.7424

You may also email our Consultation Center (consult@shands.ufl.edu) or use our secure online form.