Excellence in Patient Care
Our team treats diseases within the chest and includes the treatment of heart disease, lung disease, aneurysms of the great vessels, and disorders of the esophagus. We have a large team of devoted faculty, nursing, and ancillary staff who are committed to excellence.
We provide clinical excellence in our practice, from coronary bypass grafting or heart valve repair, to correction of heart abnormalities in newborns. Duke is top-ranked in the United States in cardiology and heart surgery by U.S. News and World Report.
In addition, we offer a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of lung and esophageal cancer and the most advanced options for treatment through our leadership role in the development of new therapies.
Every possible surgical option that is available nationwide is available at Duke and with Duke quality. Every option is carefully evaluated and continuously scrutinized, and our results for patients are second to none.
Highlights
- Duke has one of the nation's highest volumes and best outcomes for cardiac transplantation.
- The Duke Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Program is among the nation's most successful and highest-volume programs of its kind.
- Duke is home to North Carolina's largest pediatric heart-transplant program, which offers outstanding outcomes, coordinated care, family support, and long-term follow-up.
- Duke is a U.S. leader in arterial grafting, a complex procedure that extends the life of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.
- With an overall mortality rate of less than 2 percent, Duke's Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Surgery Program continues to produce outcomes that meet or exceed the Society of Thoracic Surgeons benchmarks, even in patients with the most complex malformations.
Clinical Services
Services at Duke that include faculty from the Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery include:
Cardiovascular
- Adult congenital heart disease
- Aneurysm and aortic disease
- Aortic valve disease treatment
- Atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias
- Cardiac catheterization
- Congestive heart failure
- Coronary artery disease
- Heart bypass surgery
- Heart transplant
- Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
- Mitral valve disease
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- Ventricular assist devices (Learn about our LVAD research)
Thoracic
Oncology
- Lung cancer: Surgery for patients with lung cancer, including multidisciplinary evaluation and cutting-edge therapy, such as immunotherapy and advanced clinical trials
- Lung cancer screening
- Incidental lung nodule management
- Esophageal cancer: Surgery for patients with esophagogastric cancer, including multidisciplinary evaluation and cutting edge therapy, such as immunotherapy and advanced clinical trials
- Mediastinal cancers
- Thymomas, thymic carcinomas, germ cell tumors
- Mesothelioma
- Metastatic disease involving the lungs
- Resection of lung metastases for a wide variety of metastatic solid organ malignancies, including colorectal, kidney, sarcoma, and germ cell tumors
- Sarcoma
- Surgery hiatal and paraesophageal hernias
- Surgery for reflux: fundoplication, LINX, TIFF
- Endoscopic therapies: POEM, EMR, RFA, stenting
Lung failure
- Lung volume reduction surgery for COPD/Emphysema
- Lung transplant
- Diaphragm paralysis
- Diaphragm pacemakers, Diaphragm plication
Minimally-invasive thoracic surgery
- Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)
- Robotic surgery