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Can Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting be Initiated and Practiced Safely?

Dai Une, Harry Lapierre, Benjamin Sohmer, Vaneet Rai, Marc Ruel

Innovations Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery · 2013 · 51 citations · 4 references

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Abstract

Minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting can be safely initiated, with a very low perioperative risk. Pump assistance is a good strategy to alleviate some of the learning curve and avoid conversions to sternotomy when initiating a multivessel MICS CABG program.

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L. David Hillis, Peter K. Smith, Jeffrey L. Anderson et al. · Circulation · 2011 · 781 citations · Full text

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Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Joseph T. McGinn, Saif Usman, Harry Lapierre et al. · Circulation · 2009 · 228 citations · Full text

The Coronary ArteryRevascularisation in Diabetes (CARDia) trial: Background, aims, and design

Akhil Kapur, Iqbal Malik, J. P. Bagger et al. · American Heart Journal · 2005 · 93 citations

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Handsewn Proximal Anastomoses Onto the Ascending Aorta Through a Small Left Thoracotomy During Minimally Invasive Multivessel Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Stepwise Approach to Safety and Reproducibility

Vincent Chan, Harry Lapierre, Benjamin Sohmer et al. · Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery · 2012 · 49 citations

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