Your Heart Serves Two Primary Functions
The heart pumps blood throughout your body and controls heart rate. Sometimes the heart can stop functioning normally and be managed with medications or medical procedures.
Common Heart Surgery Procedure
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG)
Mitral Valve Replacement (MVR)
Aortic Valve Replacement (AVR)
Surgical Ablation (SA)
You Are Having Heart Surgery Now What? Approximately 30% of patients having cardiac surgery have pre- operative Atrial Fibrillation. 1 Atrial fibrillation is an abnormal and irregular heartbeat, or heart rhythm. Atrial fibrillation is caused by irregular electrical signals in the heart. You might also hear atrial fibrillation called AF, or Afib.
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