Heart, chest and lung surgery now offered
at Penn Cardiac Care at Phoenixville Hospital
We are pleased to announce that Penn
Cardiac Care at Phoenixville Hospital has expanded its services to
include heart surgery. "This is a growing, thriving
community and we believe it is important to provide
more advanced heart care to the residents, such as
bypass surgery, lung surgery, esophageal surgery and
chest surgery," says Hans
M. Haupt, MD, FACS,
director of the cardiothoracic program.
"The availability of cardiothoracic surgery at
Phoenixville Hospital permits the hospital to perform
other diagnostic and interventional procedures. We
treat most acute heart problems and blocked coronary
arteries with medication, stents (a tiny metal device
placed inside the artery to keep it open), drug-eluting
stents, and balloon angioplasty (a procedure that involves
threading a balloon-like device into blocked arteries
to promote blood flow)," states Kathleen
E. Magness, MD, an interventionalist and co-director
of the catheterization laboratory at Phoenixville Hospital.
By choosing a hospital such as Phoenixville that offers
angioplasty, the response time to open and unblock
the patient's arteries is faster, thereby minimizing
damage to the heart.
The cardiothoracic surgery program at Phoenixville
Hospital offers on and off-pump bypass surgery, aortic
aneurysm repair, and surgery for adult congenital heart
disease, as well as the latest minimally invasive techniques
for valve repair and replacement. These techniques
typically translate into less blood loss, reduced pain
and faster recovery periods for patients. Veins used
for bypass operations are also harvested minimally
invasively for improved patient comfort.
Penn Cardiac Care at Phoenixville Hospital can also
provide advanced surgical treatment for lung cancer,
including mediastinoscopy and pulmonary resections
and esophageal surgery, including resection and treatment
for esophageal cancer. "Patients were previously
traveling to Philadelphia, Allentown or even Reading," says
Dr. Haupt. "Now, we can better serve the community
by providing the in-depth, sophisticated treatments
patients need right here in Phoenixville."
For
complex cases such as heart transplantation, Phoenixville
Hospital also provides access to the University of
Pennsylvania Medical Center-Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania, one of the nation's best for heart
transplantation.
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