Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery in Arizona

Services

The Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery program at Mayo Clinic in Arizona serves patients with congenital and acquired diseases of the heart, lungs, esophagus, diaphragm and great vessels, as well as patients with lung and esophageal cancers. Our surgeons perform hundreds of operations each year using state-of-the-art technology including minimally invasive techniques.

The program goal is to provide the highest quality cardiac surgical care available for patients and to be a referral resource for physician colleagues in the community.

Areas of expertise include:

• Achalasia
• Adult ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)
• Adult reconstructive valvular heart surgery
• Arrhythmia
• Arterial grafting for the treatment of coronary artery disease
• Cancers of the mediastinum
• Chest deformities: (pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum)
• Congestive heart failure
• Esophageal cancer
• Heart transplantation
• Lung cancer
• Mesothelioma
• Metastatic cancers to the lungs
• Photodynamic therapy for esophageal cancer
• Solitary fibrous tumors
• Surgery for atrial fibrillation
• Surgery for aneurysms of the thoracic aorta
• Surgery for emphysema
• Thoractic outlet syndrome (a group of disorders with symptoms related to compression of nerves and blood vessels)