
WashU Medicine heart surgeons offer the following services:
- Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), on and off-pump (or beating heart surgery) including minimally invasive or keyhole surgical techniques, and endoscopic coronary artery bypass surgery (robotic surgery)
- Aortic valve repair and replacement (valvuloplasty), including minimally invasive approaches
- Mitral valve repair and mitral valve replacement (valvuloplasty), including minimally invasive methods
- Aortic aneurysm, including stent grafting
- Ventricular assist device implant
- Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE)
- Minimally invasive Maze procedure for atrial fibrillation
- Robotically assisted heart surgery
- Heart transplantation
- Heart-lung transplantation
- Transmyocardial laser revascularization for patients who are not candidates for traditional CABG
- Pacemaker implantation
- Adult congenital heart surgery
Contact us
For a consultation regarding a heart condition, call 314-362-7260.
Surgeons who treat heart conditions

Puja Kachroo, MD
Surgical Director, Center for Diseases of the Thoracic Aorta (CDTA)
Associate Professor, Surgery
- Phone: 314-362-7260
Section of Cardiac Surgery

Kunal Kotkar, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
- Phone: 314-362-7260
Section of Cardiac Surgery
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Muhammad Faraz Masood, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
- Phone: 314-362-7260
Section of Cardiac Surgery
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Associate Program Director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency Program