Adult Cardiac Surgery

As part of NYU Langone Heart, our cardiac surgeons are renowned for their ability to perform complex procedures and for pioneering new and better ways to treat conditions that affect the heart, including aortic valve disease and mitral valve disease.

Our cardiac surgeons offer you the most advanced options, including the latest transcatheter, minimally invasive, robotic, and open surgical techniques. Our breadth and depth of expertise ensures that you receive the treatment that is best suited to your individual diagnosis, and that allows you to go home as early as the next day—and return to your daily activities as safely and quickly as possible.

We are also dedicated to making sure that every patient has a pleasant and convenient experience.

Innovators in Cardiac Surgery

Cardiac surgeons from our Mitral Valve Repair Program performed the first-ever minimally invasive mitral valve repair in the United States and the world’s first robotic mitral valve repair.

At our Transcatheter Heart Valve Program, our surgeons have performed more transcatheter heart valve procedures than any other program in the country, and are leaders in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and MitraClip^® for mitral valve repair.

Cardiac surgeons at our Heart Valve Center also performed the world’s first completely trans-septal percutaneous mitral valve replacement.

Surgeons at our Aortic Center are sought out for their expertise in treating the most complex forms of aortic aneurysm, including aortic root, aortic arch, and thoracoabdominal aneurysms.

Our cardiac surgeons were also at the forefront of many innovations in coronary bypass graft surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and congenital heart disease treatment. Surgeons at our Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Program pioneered advancements in septal myectomy and mitral valve repair that are now the gold standard in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy treatment.

For patients who require heart transplant, we are one of the top heart transplant centers in the country, with the fastest transplant rate in the Northeast and highest one-year survival rate in New York State.

Procedures We Perform

Cardiac surgery procedures we perform include the following:

• adult congenital heart disease surgery
• aortic dissection repair
• aortic valve, mitral valve, and tricuspid valve repair and replacement, including transcatheter approaches and minimally invasive and robotic techniques
• aortic valve replacement with coronary artery bypass graft
• arrhythmia treatment using Maze procedure with cryoablation or radiofrequency ablation
• atrial septal defect repair, using transcatheter and minimally invasive approaches
• coarctation of the aorta repair
• constrictive pericarditis surgery
• coronary artery bypass surgery with multiple arterial grafts
• extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
• heart transplant
• left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy
• lung transplant
• mitral valve repair or replacement with coronary bypass surgery
• pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) for acute and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH)
• septal myectomy to treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• total artificial heart placement
• thoracic aortic aneurysm repair

Cardiac surgery takes place at Tisch Hospital, Kimmel Pavilion, and NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island. Each person is cared for by a team of experts with advanced training in treating people with cardiac diseases. We strive to keep you and your family fully informed and actively involved throughout your treatment and recovery.