Why is the doctor performing this surgery?

To relieve chronic chest pain (angina).

What is the surgery?

Transmyocardial Revascularization is a laser surgery that stimulates blood vessel growth, thereby decreasing chest pain due to inadequate oxygen supply reaching the heart muscle itself. TMR is usually performed in conjunction with bypass surgery (CABG) on individuals with blood deprived heart muscle. The surgeon may create 20-40 new channels, each 1 millimeter wide, in the muscular wall of the left ventricle using a laser. These new channels stimulate angiogenesis, which is the natural growth of new blood vessels within the heart muscle.

Where is the surgery performed?

In the Operating Room (OR), under general anesthesia.

How long does this surgery take?

TMR usually takes 1-2 hours to perform if this is the sole procedure being done. It may only take minutes if being performed as part of a Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) procedure.

Surgeries

• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
• Bypass Surgery
• Carotid Endarterectomy (CEA)
• Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (CABG)
• Transmyocardial Revascularization (TMR)
• Valve Repair Surgery
• Valve Replacement Surgery

Procedures

• Ablation
• Angiojet Thrombectomy
• Aortagram
• Atherectomy
• Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (AICD or ICD)
• Coil Embolization
• Computed Axial Tomography (CAT or CT)/Ultrafact Computed Tomography (CT) Scan
• Coronary Balloon Angioplasty & Stenting
• Coronary Catheterization
• Dobutamine Stress Echo
• Echocardiography (ECHO)
• Electrocardiogram (EKG/ECG)
• Electrophysiology Study (EPS)
• Event Recorder
• Holter Monitoring
• Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Umbrella Placement
• Intraaortic Balloon Pump
• Intracardiac Ultrasound (ICE)
• Intravascular Ultrasound (ICE)
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)/ Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA)
• Medicated Stents
• Nuclear Stress Tests
• Pacemakers
• Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA)
• Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA)
• Peripheral Stents
• Peripheral Vascular Angiography
• Radiation Brachytherapy
• Septal Closures
• Signal Averaged Electrocardiogram (SAECG)
• Stents
• Stress Echocardiogram
• Stress Test
• Thrombolytic Treatment
• Tilt Table
• Transesophageal Echocardiogram (TEE)
• Valvuloplasty