A Prospective Study on Limited Access Approach for Cardiac Surgeries

Abstract

The application of limited access approaches in cardiac surgery is widely accepted at present. We routinely perform minimally invasive cardiac surgeries at our institution. In this study, we review our experience of minimally access cardiac surgeries performed between March 2018 to October 2019 using standard instruments. 12 patients underwent AVR through upper ministernotomy, 7 patients underwent Atrial septal defect repair, 9 patients underwent Mitral valve replacement, 1 patient underwent Left atrial Myxoma excision, 3 patients underwent Coronary artery bypass graft through a thoracotomy approach and 1 patient had a pacemaker placement through a limited access approach by a subxiphisternal incision. The mean cardiopulmonary bypass time is 98.48 min, the mean cross clamp time was 60.0130 minutes and the mean overall hospital stay was 4.9 days.