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Recently, interest in minimally invasive cardiac surgery has grown exponentially among both cardiac surgeons and their patients. This shift from traditional techniques can be attributed to expanding surgical technical capabilities, excellent clinical results, and expanding communication. Heretofore, traditional cardiac surgery has been performed through a median sternotomy, which provides generous exposure and easy access to all cardiac structures as well as the great vessels. Since the early 1990s, improvements in endoscopic technology and techniques, as well as surgeon education, have resulted in a substantial increase in the number of minimally invasive non-cardiac surgical procedures performed. In many specialties, endoscopic procedures are now standard. Until recently, a median sternotomy and cardiopulmonary bypass were required in most cardiovascular procedures due to the complexity of the operations. However, in the early 1990s, alternative, less traumatic methods for performing cardiothoracic surgery were developed.
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Nifong, L., Chitwood, W. (2009). Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery. In: Movahed, A., Gnanasegaran, G., Buscombe, J., Hall, M. (eds) Integrating Cardiology for Nuclear Medicine Physicians. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78674-0_41
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