Services
Dr Sanders performs most aspects of cardiac and thoracic surgery
As a leader in minimally invasive thoracic surgery in Australia, Dr Sanders has performed a significant number of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomies, making him one of the most experienced in Perth.
Cardiac - Heart Surgery
- Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
- ONCAB
- (Bypass Grafting with the heart-lung machine)
- OPCAB – Beating heart surgery for single – double vessel disease
- (Bypass Grafting without the heart-lung machine)
- ONCAB
- Aortic Valve Replacement
- Mitral Valve Replacement
- Tricuspid Valve Surgery
- Atrial Septal Defect closure
- Aortic surgery
- Atrial Fibrillation ablation procedures
- MAZE
- Minimally Invasive: Convergent / HyCASA
- Minimally Invasive: VAT Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion (AtriClip™)
Thoracic - Lung/Chest Surgery
With a few excepts Minimally Invasive - Keyhole - VAT (Video Assisted Thoracoscopy)
- Video-assisted thoracic (VAT) lung resections
- Lobectomy
- Wedge resection
- Lung saving/sparing surgery
- Segmentectomy
- Sleeve resection
- Treatment of mediastinal & pleural diseases
- Thymectomy (for Thymoma, Myasthenia Gravis
- Mediastinal tumour resection
- Pleurodesis (for pneumothorax, pleural effusion)
- Pleural biopsy
- Lung Volume Reduction Surgery LVRS
- Emphysema & Bullous disease
- Mediastinoscopy
- Chest Wall Resection
- Rib Fracture Treatment / Rib Plating