Dallas Aortic Surgeon

Here at Wood Heart and Vascular, we pride ourselves as the best institute for heart disease and surgery in the nation, and amongst the best in the world. There are many different procedures to make sure that your Aortic Surgeon, can diagnose you with the right diagnosis. In this case, Aortic heart disease. The first action your Aortic surgeon will do here at the Wood Heart and Vascular, is do the appropriate testing to find out exactly what's going on with your heart and make an accurate diagnosis. Our surgeon will do a series of testing. The first test he will do is an Echocardiogram.

This test, is a test that uses high frequency sound waves, on a monitor to show visual images of the patience heart. The Sonographer is then able to evaluate the timing and regularity or irregularity of the heart. This process will give the aortic surgeon the key elements for a spot on diagnosis. Along with this test, an ultra sound is very common as well. This evaluates any kind of problem with the heart, helping with the diagnosis process. Our surgeons will also make this a mandatory test, to insure all the tests necessary, to make sure we take care of you with all of our technological advances with a team that are the world class at what they are doing. The next test that your surgeon will ensure to check for aortic problems, possibly aortic bypass surgery if he feels necessary, is the angiogram.

The angiogram is the most important of all the diagnostic tests to determined bypass surgery or not. Our Aortic Surgeons job and responsibility, has been carefully crafted over the years to make sure that you are safe and will come out post surgery feeling as good as new, and you'll be up and coming in no time. The aortic surgery performed by the Aortic surgeon, is an aneurism, a bulge that sits in the wall of an artery, or in the heart muscle. Your concern, is probably the bulge in your heart muscle. In this case, our Aortic Surgeons will explain to you that this is a Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm. When our Aortic surgeons diagnose this as the case, the procedure for surgery is very specific and our Aortic surgeons are brilliantly equipped to make sure your aortic surgery is a wonderful success. Michael Wood is the founder of Wood Heart and Vascular, and as a cardiac surgeon, with over twenty years of experience, as one of the top cardio surgeons on the planet. With a man with this kind of experience and expertise, you can be rest assured, that Dr Michael Wood has presented a team of the highest caliber to make sure that their Aortic surgeons will keep you in very safe, highly reliable hands. Call us, if you have any questions regarding your heart or health and we will be glad to help you.