Minimal Access Cardiac Surgery: State of the Art and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease (ISSN 2308-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiac Surgery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 29595
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Interests: minimal-access cardiac surgery; risk scoring; EuroSCORE; postoperative outcomes; heart and lung transplantation
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Dear Colleagues,
As with all areas of surgical practice, there has been a move in recent years towards minimally invasive approaches to many operations. For example, VATS lobectomy is becoming the standard of care. In cardiac surgery, I think it fair to term these approaches minimal access, rather than minimally invasive, since the invasiveness of the surgery, in terms of cardiopulmonary bypass, cardioplegic arrest, the opening of cardiac chambers, and other aspects, is much the same.
There are an increasing number of centres offering minimal-access cardiac surgery and the range of procedures offered is expanding. Patients like the idea of minimal-access procedures for a range of reasons: improved cosmesis, the perception of faster recovery, and reduced pain. Interestingly though, there remains some scepticism among the cardiac surgical community as to the true benefit of minimal-access cardiac surgery. Indeed, very few randomised controlled trials which compare outcomes to standard cardiac surgery remain.
In some ways, it is this scepticism that prompts this timely Special Issue, where the current status of minimal access cardiac surgery will be explored together with consideration of future advances and directions, in order to provide the cardiac surgical community with a robust review of the current literature.
Dr. Jason Ali
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- minimal access
- minimally invasive
- robotic
- robot-assisted
- cardiac surgery
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