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cardiac surgery

surgery on the heart or great vessels
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cardiac surgery
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Summary

cardiac surgery is a medical specialty[1]. It draws 1,463 Wikipedia views per month (medical specialty category, ranking #54 of 177).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: academic discipline[3]
  • Subclass of: thoracic surgery[4]
  • Part of: thoracic surgery[5]
  • Commons category: Cardiac surgery[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Cardiac surgery[7]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: healthcare:speciality=cardiac_surgery[8]
  • Is the study of: heart surgery[9]
  • Practiced by: cardiac surgeon[10]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[11]

Why It Matters

cardiac surgery has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

Masoud Pezeshkian Michael Ellis DeBakey Mykola Amosov thoracic surgery Tito Puente

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . scielo.br. scielo.br. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_cardiac-surgery_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{cardiac surgery}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/cardiac-surgery}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-18}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q21853
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003291-kardiochirurgie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0003291-kardiochirurgie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → medical specialty, academic discipline
    Part of → thoracic surgery
    Is the study of → heart surgery
    Part of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 7224, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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