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Volume 21, Issue 3, Pages 237-244 (Autumn 2009)


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Enabling Technology for Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Thomas Vassiliades Jr, MD, MBACorresponding Author Informationemail address

Over the past 8 years, new techniques and perhaps more significantly new technology have expanded the possibilities for minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting. In this section, we review 3 important and potentially enabling technologies: (1) robotics, (2) anastomotic connectors, and (3) the expanding role of imaging in the context of combined operating room/catheterization laboratories (hybrid suites).

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Thomas Vassiliades, Jr, MD, MBA, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, 1365A Clifton Road NE, Suite 2228, Atlanta, GA 30322

 Thomas Vassiliades, Jr reports consulting fees from Maquet Cardiovascular and equity ownership in Heart Leaflet Technologies.

PII: S1043-0679(09)00092-6

doi:10.1053/j.semtcvs.2009.08.008


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