closed-heart surgery

Definitions of closed-heart surgery
  1. noun
    heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened)
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    types:
    port-access coronary bypass surgery
    heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed by the use of small instruments and tiny cameras threaded through small incisions while the heart is stopped and blood is pumped through a heart-lung machine
    minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery
    heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed on the beating heart by the use of small instruments and cameras threaded through small incisions
    type of:
    heart surgery
    any surgical procedure involving the heart
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