Minimally Invasive CABG Surgery
Minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting (MICS CABG) is a novel coronary operation that does not require infrastructure and is potentially available to all cardiac surgeons. It aims at decreasing the invasiveness of conventional CABG while preserving the applicability and durability of surgical revascularization.
Minimally Invasive CABG procedure varies in two respects from conventional surgery with CABG. Firstly, the heart-lung bypass system is not used by MIDCAB. First, to reach your coronary arteries, the surgeon must cut in multiple tiny incisions in your abdomen. Such little cuts are called thoracotomies. These are used in conventional CABG surgery, instead of the one big incision.
These smaller cuts expose only the sections of your arteries that require grafts. They don’t expose your whole heart. This means you have a lower risk of infection
