Patrick M. Mccarthy MD

Dr. Patrick McCarthy is a cardiac surgeon having graduated from Loyola in 1980. To date, he have performed approximately 10,000 cardiac surgeries, of which 5,000 involved heart valve procedures. He regularly perform surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He believe his greatest strength is his years of experience as a cardiac surgeon and the quality results that his team and I obtain for our patients. He honored to be the first physician on Heart Valve Surgery.com to have 100 patient reviews - reviews that allow my patients to share their surgical experience and the results they achieved under his care.

He trained at the Mayo Clinic for eight years and then completed an advanced fellowship including Heart Transplantation at Stanford University. At the Cleveland Clinic, he was the surgical director of Heart Failure, Heart Transplantation, and Mechanical Cardiac Assist. After 14 years at the Cleveland Clinic, he returned ‘home’ to Chicago and joined Northwestern Medicine in 2004 where he now the executive director of Northwestern Medicine's Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, chief of Cardiac Surgery, and the Heller-Sacks Professor of Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Our highly specialized and experienced surgical team and support staff are committed to the promise that each patient at Northwestern Medicine should receive the safest and most effective surgery possible.

He personally perform approximately 350 operations a year and 90% are valve, atrial fibrillation or aneurysm related operations a year. Approximately 25% of the valve operations he do are very complex and include multiple valve and about 30% receive ablation surgery for atrial fibrillation (Maze procedure). He was one of the first to perform the Maze procedure for atrial fibrillation beginning in 1991. Today, Northwestern Medicine has become one of the most active programs treating atrial fibrillation in the world. He is the inventor of the Edwards MC3 tricuspid valve repair ring, the most widely used ring for tricuspid valve repair in the world, and have also invented two mitral valve repair rings. Our program also advocates aggressive postoperative pain management including routine use of devices to continuously infuse pain medication to reduce postoperative pain. His outstanding team of cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, and cardiac anesthesiologists, nurses and administrators at Northwestern Medicine have attained stellar outcomes, a low mortality and morbidity rate, and therefore short hospital length of stay.

They practice in a beautiful hospital in downtown Chicago where all rooms are private. They would be happy to work with you and your existing healthcare provider to proceed with the course of care that is right for you.