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Minimally invasive video-assisted cardiac surgery through a right minithoracotomy has become a standard surgical approach for several cardiac diseases at major centers worldwide.
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Provides a review of operative techniques, application fields, and clinical outcomes for minimally invasive video-assisted cardiac surgery.
Minimally invasive video-assisted surgery through a right minithoracotomy has become the standard surgical approach for several cardiac diseases at many major centers worldwide. In this article we review the existing literature on the subject and describe different operative techniques, application fields and clinical outcomes.
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Vistarini et al. (2011) studied this question. Minimally invasive video-assisted cardiac surgery through a right minithoracotomy has become a standard surgical approach for several cardiac diseases at major centers worldwide.
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