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Department of Surgery

Division of Cardiac Surgery

Cardiac Surgery

The Cardiac Surgery Division maintains a full-service program for the surgical correction of cardiac disorders. We offer an extensive range of cardiac surgical services from repairing congenital heart defects in infants and children to performing heart transplantations and other complex procedures for high-risk adult patients.

Cardiac surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center perform over 800 open heart procedures per year, including 600 coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) procedures and 100 valve repair or replacement procedures each year. Pioneering work in the techniques of off-pump bypass procedures have made our program of minimally invasive heart surgery a national leader in this specialty.

Patient Conditions

With reputations as experts in their field, surgeons on the Heart Center team treat patients with cardiac conditions resulting from:

For More Information

Visit the Maryland Heart Center's comprehensive Web site.

Specialized Treatments

Cardiac Surgery Team

Special Programs

Research Activities

Services to Physicians


This page was last updated on: January 24, 2008.

For more information about the Department of Surgery or to contact one of our surgeons, call the University Physicians Consultation and Referral Service at 1-800-492-5538 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians).