Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery and Its Potential Benefits

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Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery and Its Potential Benefits While performing a minimally invasive heart surgery a cardiac surgeon creates tiny incisions on the right side of your chest. This procedure is considered as an effective alternative to open heart surgery in India. 

Here, surgeons instead of cutting through the breastbone, a procedure known as sternotomy, carry out an operation between the ribs.

This causes relatively less pain and a speedier recovery unlike the more comprehensive open heart surgery.

Sometimes minimally invasive surgery is preferred over open heart surgery as it allows a cardiac surgeon to secure clearer views of a few vital portions of your heart.

However, akin to open heart surgery, a number of minimally invasive heart surgical procedures performed at the best hospital for bypass surgery in Delhi involve a temporary stoppage of the functioning of your heart and diverting the blood flow by making effective use of an intricate heart-lung bypass machine.

Why is a minimally invasive heart surgery done? 

Several types of operative procedures related to the heart valves may be performed with the intervention of minimally invasive heart surgery.

Some of these critical procedures include the following. o

A repair and replacement of the mitral valve

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A repair and replacement of the tricuspid valve

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A replacement of the aortic valve


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