Jun. 10—ALBANY — Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital is marking a milestone anniversary for its Heart and Vascular Services. Forty years ago, the cardiac team at Phoebe performed the first open-heart surgery in south Georgia, expanding the availability of advanced, lifesaving care in this part of the state and leading to continual growth and advancement of cardiovascular care at Phoebe through the ensuing decades.
Currently, advanced cardiovascular services available at Phoebe include high-risk surgeries, high-risk interventional procedures, minimally-invasive heart valve replacements, cardiac catheterization, angioplasty, implantation of pacemakers, and other cardiac devices, ablation and other advanced electrophysiology procedures, cardiac MRI, and peripheral vascular interventions — among other procedures.
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