• Center of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, 710032, P.R.China;
HE Qing, Email: heqing094@163.com
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Totally thoracoscopic surgery is a branch of minimally invasive cardiac surgeries, and its operational indicators are expanding with the development of the medical and imaging devices compared with median sternotomy and other minimally invasive cardiac surgeries (such as thoracoscope-assisted small incision surgery and robotic surgery). The learning curve is significantly shortened through the professional technique training. Totally thoracoscopic cardiac surgery has many advantages, such as minor trauma, few serious complications, fast recovery, high patient acceptance and being suitable to our country's current situation. Therefore it will be one main direction of minimally invasive cardiac surgery. This article mainly introduced the current status of totally thoracoscopic technology in the field of cardiac surgery in China.

Citation: HEQing, JINPing, YUShiqiang, XUXuezeng. Current status of totally thoracoscopic surgery in cardiac surgery in China. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2017, 24(1): 65-68. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.201603077 Copy

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