Abstract
To date, more and more cardiac surgeons are moving toward smaller incisions and the use of specialized less invasive surgical methodologies. The use of (and advances in) less invasive approaches or minimally invasive cardiac surgery can minimize or eliminate complications that may occur in conventional cardiac surgery. For example, for some surgeons, partial sternotomy and minithoracotomy have supplanted standard sternotomy as their preferred route for aortic valve and mitral valve surgeries.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Handbook of Cardiac Anatomy, Physiology, and Devices |
Subtitle of host publication | Second Edition |
Publisher | Humana Press |
Pages | 551-560 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781588294432 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1 2005 |
Keywords
- Cardiac robotic surgery
- Incision size
- Laparoscopic surgery
- Less invasive cardiac surgery
- Minimally invasive cardiac surgery
- Minithoracotomy
- Off-pump beating heart coronary artery bypass grafting surgery
- Partial sternotomy
- Partial thoracotomy
- Thoracoscope