Breast reconstruction with flap tissue, meaning tissue taken from your own body, helps to restore the shape and volume of one or both breasts after a mastectomy, or breast removal.

Breast reconstruction with either silicone or saline implants can restore the shape and volume of one or both breasts after a mastectomy, or breast removal.

Breast reconstruction recreates all or part of a breast that surgeons have removed to treat breast cancer or reduce the risk of breast cancer.

A biventricular pacemaker is a small, battery-operated device that helps maintain a normal and coordinated heartbeat by sending electrical impulses to the heart.

Biceps tenodesis surgery is a procedure to repair the biceps tendon, a long cord-like structure that attaches the biceps muscle of your upper arm to the elbow at one end and the shoulder at the other.

If you have aortic valve disease, such as aortic stenosis, you may need surgery to replace your heart valve.

If you have aortic stenosis (a blockage in your aortic valve), or a diseased or damaged valve, but your heart disease is not severe enough to warrant a valve replacement, you may be a candidate for aortic valve repair.

Aortic root repair or replacement is surgery to treat an enlargement or ballooning (aortic aneurysm) near where the large blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the vital organs (aorta) meets the heart (aortic root).

Aortic dissection repair is surgery to mend a tear in the inner wall of the aorta, the large blood vessel that carries oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the vital organs.

An aortic dissection is a tear in the wall of the aorta – the major blood vessel that carries oxygen-rich blood from the heart to other vital organs.