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Robotically enhanced totally endoscopic right internal thoracic coronary artery bypass to the right coronary artery
T Aybek1, S Dogan, E Andressen
1Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. T.Aybek@em.uni-frankfurt.de
The Heart Surgery Forum
|February 15, 2001
Abstract:
Computer-enhanced telemanipulation systems allow totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting. This report demonstrates the feasibility of a coronary artery anastomosis between the right internal thoracic artery and the right coronary artery using the daVinci surgical system (Intuitive Surgical, Inc, Mountain View, CA).