The cardiac surgery program at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Cardiovascular Center has provided comprehensive and innovative care to tens of thousands of patients with excellent outcomes. Brigham and Women’s Hospital surgeons blend innovative surgical technologies with traditional procedures to continually improve patient outcomes and decrease recovery time for patients following heart surgery.
In 2004, our Division performed 1,706 surgeries for heart disease at Brigham and Women's Hospital and our satellite program at Cape Cod Hospital. Since 1970, more than 15,000 patients have undergone coronary artery bypass surgery at our Center. As the graph below indicates, our mortality rate is consistently below that of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons national database. The rate for the primary isolated CABG surgeries performed in 2004 was 1.5 percent, well below that national rate of 2.5 percent.
Our Cardiac Valve Program continues to be an international referral center for reparative valve surgery and all valve operations. We pioneered minimally invasive valve procedures in 1996. By 2005, Brigham and Women's Hospital had performed close to 1,400 minimally invasive valve operations. The mortality rate for mitral valve replacements performed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are lower than those reported by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
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