Minimal cardiac surgery
Grenade, T.
Revue Medicale de Liege 53(2): 71-76
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0370-629X PMID: 9564224 Document Number: 494690
In general surgery, the aim of new techniques is to reduce the length of the skin incisions and/or to use endoscopic or laparoscopic instruments. The cardiac surgery makes not an exception. During the last two years, the material and the techniques are following a progressive evolution. Concerning the cardiac surgery of the adult, three techniques which are the mini-incision or thoracotomy and the surgery of the port-access are in full evolution. We describe the advantages and disadvantages.