Minimally invasive cardiac surgery procedures at the Institute of Cardiology

There have been other minimally invasive cardiac procedures performed at the Institute of Cardiology Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology. They included mitral valvuloplasty and closing of a superior vena cava-type atrial septal defect .

Operations of this type are carried out through an approximately 2-inch incision in the chest wall (minithoracotomy). Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is used in the repair of mitral and tricuspid valve defects and atrial septal defects that cannot be treated with transvascular methods.