Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Thoracic Surgery: Thoracic surgery indicates the operations on organs in the chest, including the heart, lungs and esophagus. Thoracic surgeries cover coronary artery bypass surgery, heart transplant, lung transplant and removal of the lung affected by cancer.

Types of Thoracoscopic Surgery Procedures:

Video-Assisted Lobectomy
Wedge Resection
Lung Biopsy
Drainage of Pleural Effusions
Mediastinal, Pericardial, and Thymus Thoracoscopic procedures

Cardiovascular Surgery: Cardiovascular surgery defined as heart surgery. It relates surgical procedure which includes the heart, or the blood vessels that carry blood to heart.

Types of heart surgery:

Coronary artery bypass grafting
Heart valve repair or replacement
Pacemaker Insertion or cardioverter defibrillator (ICD)
Maze surgery
Aneurysm repair
Heart transplant
Ventricular assist device (VAD) or total artificial heart (TAH) insertion

Committee Members

Yochai Birnbaum

Baylor College of Medicine, United States

Uwe Peter Tigor

Auxilius Pharma, United States, United States

Federico Benetti

Benetti Foundation, Argentina

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Cardio 2026 Speakers

Sergey Suchkov

Professor in Medicine & Immunology, Director for Center for Biodesign of N.D. Zelinskii Institute for Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation