Cardiac surgeon is a subspecialty of the thoracic surgery,
which involves operative treatment of structural abnormalities of the heart and major blood
vessels, surgical repair of heart lesions as well as congenital and developed
conditions of the heart, pericardium, coronary arteries, valves, and myocardium.
Statistics show a median annual salary for a typical cardiac surgeon in the United States of
$405,000.
Latest Internet advertised cardiac surgery physician jobs have an average salary of
$296,000 /year.
