What specialized services are offered at Brigham and Women’s Hospital?
Brigham and Women’s Hospital is one of the very few centers that specialize in the treatment of advanced forms of coronary artery disease that are considered inoperable elsewhere. The Division of Cardiac Surgery also has an active and robust research program. Since 1954, the Cardiac Surgical Research Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital has been the site of the development of counterpulsation, many original heart valve prostheses and extensive early work on protection of the myocardium during acute myocardial infarction and transplantation. Other special services include: • Surgical Imaging – including cardioscopy, an imaging concept that uses a clear oxygenated solution that allows physicians to visualize intra-cardiac structures in the beating heart. • Brigham Cardiac Surgical Database – includes every patient operated upon by surgeons of the Division of Cardiac Surgery since 1973. We have used the database for 25 years to report retrospective and prospective clinical research.
