Less invasive coronary artery bypass grafting surgery is underused despite more than 25 years of interest from surgeons and growing patient demands for less pain and rapid full recovery. New approaches may offer surgeons additional options to provide enhanced clinical results through reliable subxiphoid bilateral internal thoracic artery harvesting and the creation of durable anastomoses through very small thoracotomy incisions. This first-in-human case report describes 2 patients who received surgical coronary revascularization using the µCAB technology and techniques. The encouraging early results indicate that the µCAB approach may offer a new ergonomic, affordable method for coronary revascularization with less surgical trauma.
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