A Few Tips on How Aneurysms Happen Your arteries perform a critical job: they transport blood from your heart to all other areas throughout your body. Under normal circumstances, the arterial wall is strong enough to support the corresponding blood pressure. However, if those walls weaken, a rupture or dissection can occur. These are called [...]
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What To Expect From A Thoracotomy
Posted by healthfacts in May 26th 2009
What To Expect From A Thoracotomy When a surgeon needs to gain access to a patient’s lungs, heart, or other thoracic organs, he or she will perform a thoracotomy. For the purpose of this article, we’ll focus primarily on the procedure in the context of a surgeon performing the procedure due to lung cancer. Typically, [...]