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Cardiac Surgery

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Dr. Fred Crawford,
Cardiac Surgeon

MUSC’s highly specialized team for 
cardiac surgery performs the complete range of cardiac surgeries, including minimally invasive coronary bypass, open heart 
surgery and valve surgeries.

Cardiac surgery 
procedures
include:

Mitral valve replacement and repair
Coronary artery bypass graft surgery
    (including “off-pump” beating heart surgery)
Repair of congenital heart defects
Mechanical assist device placement (LVAD, biVAD)Pediatric and adult heart transplants
Surgery for aortic aneurysms, including valve sparing aortic root replacement

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In the News

Cardiologists and cardiac surgeons at MUSC applied to the FDA and received a compassionate waiver to use the Berlin Heart to save a five-year-old's life.

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