| Cardiothoracic Surgeon | |
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| Occupation | |
| Names | Doctor, Medical Specialist |
| Type | Specialty |
| Activity sectors | Surgery |
| Description | |
| Education required | Doctor of Medicine |
| Fields of employment | Hospitals, Clinics |
| Average salary | ▲ USD $436,000 (M.D.) |
Cardiothoracic surgery is the field of medicine involved in surgical treatment of diseases affecting organs inside the thorax (the chest). Generally treatment of conditions of the heart (heart disease) and lungs (lung disease).
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Cardiac surgery (involving the heart and great vessels) and thoracic surgery (involving the lungs and any other thoracic organ) are separate surgical specialties, except in the USA, where they are frequently grouped together, so that a surgeon training in the cardiothoracic specialty will receive a broader but less specialized experience in both fields.
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   | CTSNet: The Cardiothoracic Surgery Network - CTSNet: The Cardiothoracic Surgery Network |
| | American Association for Thoracic Surgery - AATS: American Association for Thoracic Surgery |
| | International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery - ISMICS: The International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery |
| | The Virtual Textbook Of Extracorporeal Technology - Virtual Textbook of Extracorporeal Technology |
| | Yale: Introduction to Cardiothoracic Imaging - Yale: Introduction to Cardiothoracic Imaging |
| | Advances in Cardiovascular Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgical Procedures - Advances in Cardiovascular Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgical Procedures. |
| | The Implantable Artificial Heart Project - The Implantable Artificial Heart Project |
| | The Heart Surgery Forum® - Heart Surgery Forum |
| | Classification of aortic dissection - Aortic Dissection -- Green and Kron 2 (2003): 1095 Figure 1 -- Cardiac Surgery in the Adult |
| | Heart Assist Devices - Sorry, we can't find that page |
| | Cardiac Surgery in the Adult - Cardiac Surgery in the Adult |
| | Heart Transplantation - Heart Transplantation: eMedicine Transplantation |
| | History of Lung Transplantation - Heart-Lung and Lung Transplantation -- Balsam et al. 2 (2003): 1461 -- Cardiac Surgery in the Adult |
| | HISTORY OF HEART TRANSPLANTATION - Heart Transplantation -- Bethea et al. 2 (2003): 1427 -- Cardiac Surgery in the Adult |
| | Lung Transplantation - Lung Transplantation: eMedicine Transplantation |
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