Heart Bypass Surgery

Reports summarize heart bypass surgery study results from U. Kappert and co-researchers

Published in Medical Imaging Week, May 24th, 2008

"Robotic totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass of the left anterior descending artery has been introduced in the clinical setting using a wrist-enhanced computer-assisted device to provide a minimally invasive therapeutic approach. Early clinical results were focused on the initial hospital course of patients," investigators in Dresden, Germany report.

"This report describes the first 5-year follow-up of patients after totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass in a single center. From May 1999 to June 2001, 41 patients (36 male, 5 female; mean age 60.6 +/- 8.9 years) underwent totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass for isolated high-grade lesions of the left...

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Source: Medical Imaging Week (2008-05-24)

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