Cardiothoracic Surgery

Clinic Profile

The Cardiothoracic Surgery (CTS) Clinic of Nicosia General Hospital is the first CTS Clinic in Cyprus, with 35 years of experience.

It offers high-quality cardiac and thoracic surgical services and covers emergency cases from all over Cyprus on a 24-hour basis.

The Department was recently honored with ISO 9001:2015 and BSEN IS224:2016 quality service certifications after a successful external audit.

The Department is staffed by highly trained and experienced personnel for the management of patients requiring cardiac or thoracic surgery.

It consists of:

• 5 specialist Cardiothoracic Surgeons
• 5 specialist Cardiac Anesthesiologists
• 32 nurses
• 2 perfusionists
• 1 Physiotherapist
• 4 Ward Assistants
• 1 Secretary

The Department has 18 beds in the Cardiothoracic Surgery ward, 8 of which are equipped with special telemetry for safe patient monitoring.

The CTS Department, along with its two operating theaters, outpatient clinics, and Intensive Care Unit, constitutes interdependent units that cover the department’s needs for managing emergency and scheduled cases.

The CTS Clinic performs operations with high success rates for:

Cardiac Surgery:

1. Aortocoronary bypass (CABG)
2. Cardiac valve replacement/repair
3. Repair of ascending aortic/arch aneurysm
4. Surgical treatment of endocarditis
5. Surgical ablation of arrhythmias
6. Myectomy for hypertrophic interventricular septum
7. Emergency operations for acute aortic dissection or coronary arteries
8. Transapical aortic valve replacement (TA – TAVI)
9. Surgical treatment of cardiac tumors
10. Closure of atrial septal defect (ASD)
11. Closure of ventricular septal defect
12. Repair of left ventricular aneurysms

Thoracic Surgery:

1. VATS lobectomy for lung malignancy
2. Tumors of the lung, mediastinum, chest wall
3. Operations for emphysematous lungs (LVRS)
4. Operations for infectious lung diseases (member of the TISI workgroup)
5. Surgical treatment of pneumothorax, hemothorax.

The Department has been equipped with a new 3D thoracoscopic tower, and a robotic thoracoscopic surgery program (Da Vinci) is already underway.