Fact Sheets

Source: CCM

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Pediatric Tonsillectomy
A pediatric tonsillectomy is a surgical procedure that removes a child's tonsils. Learn about this procedure.
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Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Pediatric obstructive sleep apnea is a sleeping disorder that causes a child to stop breathing momentarily. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
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Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Deep Brain Stimulation may be helpful for treating essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease, among others.
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Heart Surgery
Heart surgeries are procedures to treat severe heart conditions. Learn more about these procedures.
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Pediatric Tonsillitis
Tonsillitis is an infection of the tonsils that causes them to swell, making it hard to swallow and leaving the lymph nodes in the neck sore.
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Heart Failure Surgery
Heart surgery for heart failure helps repair a variety of heart conditions and disorders.
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Surgeries for Upper Aero-Digestive Tract
Surgeries for upper aero-digestive tract are procedures to treat problems that affect such functions as breathing, speaking, and swallowing. Learn more about these procedures.
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Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) with Multiple Arterial Grafts
Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting is a surgical procedure that is used to treat coronary artery disease. In the procedure, a surgeon takes healthy blood vessels from elsewhere in the body and uses them to reroute blood around narrowed or blocked sections of affected coronary arteries, thereby restoring blood flow to the heart.
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Anesthesiology for Heart Bypass
Cardiac bypass surgery presents special risks related to limited blood flow to the heart. Yale Medicine anesthesiologists have expertise in this area.
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Pediatric Sleep Study
A pediatric sleep study is an evaluation that analyzes a child's sleeping habits in the controlled setting of a sleep lab.