Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Surgery in Women

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 1st Congress of the Asian-Pacific Society of Atherosclerosis & Vascular Disease, held March 14-18, 1998, in Taipei, Taiwan, "Minimally invasive surgery in coronary artery bypass grafting has been applied mainly in the management of one vessel lesion of coronary artery disease. Nine female patients, aged 49.1-81.6 years old (mean 64.3), were operated on for triple vessel disease through minimally invasive surgical techniques. The surgeries were performed through limited left parasternal incision under femoro-femoral extracorporeal circulation. The myocardium was protected by antegrade infusion of cold blood cardioplegic solution...

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