We value life and perform life-saving surgery
ranked #1 in the State of Texas for 2008 & 2009.
Doctor Filiberto Rodriguez-Salinas completed his cardiac surgery training at the Cleveland Clinic followed by an
additional fellowship in congenital and advanced adult cardiac surgery at the Mayo Clinic. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. Ever since performing the first-ever heart operation in McAllen in 1983 he has performed over 10,000 cardiac operations, and his results have been consistently ranked in the top tier for cardiac surgery by independent reporting agencies. In 1994, his program
for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery - with a mortality rate of only 1.6% versus the 5.3% national average mortality rate at that time. More recently, his program now at the McAllen Heart Hospital with a mortality rate of less than 1% received the
HealthGrades™ Cardiac Surgery Excellence Award for 2008, which was awarded to only four hospitals in Texas. Hospitals receiving this honor were in the top tier of the HealthGrades™ national cardiac surgery ratings and our program at the McAllen Heart Hospital was
Now at the McAllen Heart Hospital
A mortality rate of less than 1%
Dr. Rodriguez's program now at the McAllen Heart Hospital with a mortality rate of less than 1% received the HealthGrades™ Cardiac Surgery Excellence Award for 2008, which was awarded to only four hospitals in Texas. Hospitals receiving this honor were in the top tier of the HealthGrades™ national cardiac surgery ratings and our program at the McAllen Heart Hospital was ranked #1 in the State of Texas for 2008
& 2009.
Did You Know....
Heart disease remains the number one killer for both men and women.
CT-scan
calcium scoring offers a simple, non-invasive test to help determine your risk of coronary artery heart disease.
Dr. Rodriguez is the senior cardiac surgeon in the group.
He is Surgeon in Chief of McAllen Heart Surgeons.Over the past twenty-five years, he has performed over 10,000 operations. He has focused on complex coronary bypass, valve repair and replacement, and electrophysiologic surgery for atrial fibrillation.
McAllen Heart Hospital
Cardiac Surgery Excellence Award for 2008.
Dr. Rodriguez's program now at the McAllen Heart Hospital with a mortality rate of less than 1% received the HealthGrades™ Cardiac Surgery Excellence Award for 2008, which was awarded to only four hospitals in Texas.
Procedures
- Bypass Surgery
- Valve Surgery
- Atrial Fibrillation Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
- Aortic Surgery
- Carotid Artery Surgery
- Heart Failure Surgery
- Lung Cancer Surgery
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Surgery
- General Heart Surgery Topics
- Heart Surgery Videos
All videos, procedure text and graphics courtesy of the Cleveland Clinic.
