Cardiosurgery

Experienced surgeons

The surgical department of TIM is staffed with highly qualified professionals with many years of experience. All departments in the clinic (cardiology, radiology, intensive care and anesthesiology, laboratory, and specialists from various fields) work in close collaboration with the cardiothoracic surgery team to fully participate in the diagnosis and treatment of each patient. This team-based approach ensures maximum patient safety and high-quality treatment.

Treatment of critically ill patients

Since its establishment, TIM has focused on providing assistance to critically ill patients, whose surgical treatment success rate is no more than 20-30%. However, in such cases, 97%

Our Doctors

Head of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department: Otar Rukhadze, MD

Heads of the Cardio-Anesthesia Department: Giorgi Arjevanidze, MD, Shalva Basharuli, MD

Levan Chutlashvili.

Operations

Restoration of damaged coronary vessels:

(Coronary bypass), both on a working and arrested heart (with artificial blood circulation).

Heart valve plastic surgery and prosthetics:

a) Aortic valve; b) Pulmonary artery valve; c) Mitral and tricuspid valves.

Ascending aorta, aortic arch plastic surgery and prosthetics using modern methods

(Bentall, Tyrone David, Florida "workshop," and other types of plastic surgeries for the aorta).

Surgical treatment of heart tumors and thromboses

(Myxoma, melanoma, thrombosis, and others).

Restoration of damaged heart muscle and septa

(Post-infarction ventricular septal defect closure, ventricular aneurysm plastic surgery, repair of anterior heart and interatrial septal defects).

Surgical treatment of constrictive pericarditis

(Subtotal or total pericardectomy).

Combined surgeries

(Combining the above surgeries in a single operation if necessary).

Emergency surgeries in pathological damage cases:

Aortic dissection, aortic aneurysm (ruptured), acute ischemic infarction, ventricular rupture due to infarction, and other similar acute conditions treated surgically.