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After heart bypass surgery, eat a wide variety of fresh fruit and vegetables, wholegrain cereals and cold-water fish.

Planned surgery (also known as elective surgery) refers to planned surgical procedures that can be booked in advance.

Ask your doctor or surgeon about the benefits, risks and possible side effects of surgery.

Ear correction surgery, or otoplasty, is usually done to move prominent ears closer to the head or to reduce the size of large ears.

Heart attack is an emergency. If you have warning signs of heart attack, get help fast. Call triple zero (000) and ask for an ambulance.

Information about surgery and links to fact sheets about anaesthetic and types of surgery by body system.

Information and links to fact sheets about the heart, heart disease and heart attacks.

Obesity surgery is an effective, durable, evidence-based treatment for severe obesity and its associated health problems.

Heart failure is a condition where the heart muscle doesn’t pump blood to the rest of the body as well as it should.

An enlarged heart isn't a condition in itself, but a symptom of an underlying problem that is causing the heart to work harder than normal.