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Voice: (860) 423-5000 FAX: (860) 423-4838 This e-mail link is for non-urgent questions only. If you believe you may need immediate medical attention, please call our office directly or go to the nearest Emergency Room. Hours 9 a.m. - 5 p.m Monday - Friday Closed on Holidays 
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Thoracic SurgeryThoracic surgery or chest surgery involves surgery on the lung or the lymph nodes inside the chest. Also, surgery of the esophagus sometimes includes thoracic or chest surgery.Some surgery of the heart is also thoracic surgery and is done frequently at Windham Community Hospital. For example, if fluid collects around the heart it can cause pressure on the heart which can limit the heart's ability to pump blood. Drs. Ridyard, Kloss and Kolodziejczak are board certified surgeons who are each highly skilled in this type of surgery. This particular surgery is called a pericardial window. This surgery can be done through a telescope; this is minimally invasive surgery. Another typic of thoracic surgery now done by the WSG team is aneurysm repair using the recently developed aortic stent graft procedure. Other chest surgery performed at Windham Community Hospital, includes minimally invasive (also called "thoracoscopic") lung biopsies for emphysema and other lung diseases, open lung surgery for lung cancer, and surgery to remove infection (empyema) from around a pneumonia. The Windham Hospital is fortunate to have a highly skilled team of pulmonologists (medical doctors who specialize in the care of lung diseases) and surgeons who can provide these very sophisticated procedures right here in the Windham Hospital. There is no need to travel into Hartford for this specialized care. Mediastinoscopy is a special surgery done through a small incision in the neck to sample the lymph nodes around the lungs to determine if lung cancer or perhaps other lung diseases have spread. The three surgeons at Windham Surgical Group are trained in this technique. This surgery can most often be done as an outpatient and helps determine if further lung surgery is necessary. The pericardial window mentioned above is typically performed on a patient who is already an inpatient in the hospital. Fluid accumulates around the heart as a reaction to infection or pneumonia; sometimes the fluid is a response to recent open heart surgery. This fluid (pericardial tamponade) can dramatically affect the ability of the heart to pump blood around your body. Our surgeons are frequently called upon by your cardiologist to perform an operation (a pericardial window) to release this fluid. The drainage of this fluid allows the heart to pump normally again. Most often this operation is performed through three small incisions (minimally invasive). Recovery is very quick from this surgery. Sometimes this fluid is sent to the lab for analysis. |
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