Laser Heart Surgery is a minimally invasive heart surgery. It is called as transmyocardial revascularization in medical circles. Laser Heart Surgery has the potential to become an alternative to bypass surgery or angioplasty. It is a great relief to more than a couple of million Americans suffering arterial hardening or atherosclerosis.

Laser Heart Surgery uses a cold beam laser (excimer) and a unique device to operate. The need for Heart Surgery arises because of occlusion of the coronary arteries. The occlusion of coronary arteries cause blockade of blood supply to the heart muscles. As a result your heart begins to die a slow death. The resulting heart pain can be so severe that any neglect on your part can be fatal.

The basic procedure in Laser Heart Surgery is to drill as many holes as 30 in the muscles to the left ventricle in order to create a passage for blood flow. This passage facilitates blood flow (fresh with oxygen) to left ventricle. This flow will rejuvenate the dying heart muscles that were receiving little or no oxygen. Though the holes that were drilled close down gradually they create a sort of heart in heart. Incidentally, apart from oxygenating heart muscles Laser Heart Surgery helps improve pumping to the ventricle. This leads to reduced chest pain too.

It is needless to say Laser Heart Surgery uses a state of the art mechanism. The laser delivery system is controlled to have a precise motion as it goes ablating the fat tissue. This is important from the point of minimizing thermal damage. The whole system is controlled to have a synchronized rate of laser's penetration with its capability to create passage to the left ventricle. The laser delivery system is controlled mechanically that it is possible to access it from any direction and deliver reproducible passages.

Laser Heart Surgery may have to be repeated depending on the fat accumulation in coronary arteries. A recent development in this field has improved the technique so much that it is hardly any more called a surgery but a treatment. This facilitates the insertion of a catheter straight in to left ventricle. This treatment is also approved by FDA.

Laser Heart Surgery is relatively painless and you can almost walk home the same day.