How Our Heart Surgery Team Can Help
Our heart surgery team treats serious heart conditions that require surgical intervention, including blocked arteries, valve disease, heart rhythm disorders and structural heart problems. Surgeons work closely with cardiologists, anesthesiologists, nurses and rehabilitation specialists to create personalized treatment plans focused on safety, recovery and long-term heart health.
The Care We Provide
Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG)
Surgery that treats blocked arteries by creating new pathways (bypasses) to restore healthy blood flow to the heart, relieving symptoms like chest pain and shortness of breath, and lowering the risk of a heart attack.
Heart Valve Repair or Replacement
Procedures that fix or replace damaged heart valves to improve blood flow and reduce symptoms like fatigue or shortness of breath
Aortic Surgery
Surgery to repair or replace diseased or weakened sections of the aorta, the body’s main artery.
Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
Advanced techniques that use smaller incisions to treat certain heart conditions, often leading to less pain and faster recovery.
Surgery for Heart Rhythm Disorders
Minimally invasive procedures are used to open blocked arteries in the legs, improving circulation and reducing pain while walking.
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Why Choose Kaleida Health for Heart Surgery?
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Kaleida Health offers cardiac surgery within a nationally recognized heart and vascular program, centered at Buffalo General Medical Center and the Gates Vascular Institute.
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Kaleida Health heart surgeons perform more than 1,500 procedures every year, making it the largest program in New York state outside of New York City, and one of the largest in the world.
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Kaleida Health’s Structural Heart program brings interventional cardiologists and cardiac surgeons together to decide the safest and most effective way forward for patients, based on their diagnosis.
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Kaleida Health hospitals have been rated among the top 10 percent in the nation for heart surgery.
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As a major teaching affiliate of the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Kaleida Health physicians are engaged with the latest practices and innovations in cardiac care.
Meet Your Care Team
Kaleida Health surgeons provide multiple types of heart surgery including interventional cardiology, in addition to these highly specialized cardiothoracic surgeons.
- Janerio Aldridge, MD, FACS
- Hashmat Ashraf, MD
- Awad El-Ashry, MD
- Lauren Ewell, PA-C
- Lauren French, PA-C
- Robert Gambino, PA
- Gary Grosner, MD
- Kathleen Humphrey, MS, ANP-BC
- Mary Manganaro, RPA-C
- Myriam Monserrat Martinez Aguilar, MD
- Olivia Rutkowski, PA-C
- Alex Sotolongo, MD
- Allyson Zoratti, PA
Where You Can Receive Care
- General Physician, 100 High Street, Buffalo
- Gates Vascular Institute
- Gates Vascular Institute at Millard Fillmore Suburban
- Gates Vascular Institute at Olean General Hospital
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