Robotic cardiac surgery

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-85

  Lehr, Eric J ^a   Rodriguez, Evelio ^b   Chitwood, W Randolph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b East Carolina Heart Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Minimally invasive; Mitral valve insufficiency; Robotics; Surgical procedures; Telemedicine instrumentation; Thoracic surgery; Totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting; Video assisted

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; AORTA DISSECTION; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; STROKE; TOTAL ENDOSCOPIC CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ANESTHESIA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; ROBOTICS;

EID: 79952758548     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e328342052d     Document Type: Review

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