heart disease
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A patient undergoing coronary artery surgery. The chest has been opened and the heart exposed. A heart-lung machine will take over the vital job of circulating oxygenated blood to the body while the heart is temporarily stopped. During this period, blockages in the coronary arteries will be bypassed using sections of vein taken from the patient's legs.
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Sir Magdi Yacoub, pioneering surgeon who introduced many innovations in heart and heart–lung transplantation. Born in Cairo in 1935 and trained in Egypt and Britain, Magdi Yacoub has been British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiothoraic Surgery at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, since 1986.
| Disorder affecting the heart; for example, ischaemic heart disease, in which the blood supply through the coronary arteries is reduced by atherosclerosis; valvular heart disease, in which a heart valve is damaged; and cardiomyophathy, where the heart muscle itself is diseased. See also coronary artery disease. |
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