Minimally Invasive Pediatric Cardiac Surgery is Here to Stay

Juan Miguel Gil Jaurena*

Received: July 16, 2018;   Published: July 20, 2018

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2018.07.001455

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Abstract

Surgical closure of cardiac defects via a full mid-line sternotomy has been considered the gold standard for over 50 years. Due to the boom in interventional cardiology and the proliferation of techniques such as laparoscopy or thoracoscopy in other surgical specialties, several teams have adopted alternative approaches to median sternotomy [1-7].

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