Minimally Invasive Robotic Heart Surgery

Minimally invasive surgery (also known as keyhole, robotic, MIS, laparoscopic, or endoscopic surgery) allows Main Line Health cardiac surgeons to perform many types of surgical procedures through 1-2 fingertip sized incisions. For most patients, a minimally invasive robotic approach decreases overall trauma to the body, it eliminates the need to split the breast bone and spread the ribs to access the heart. This substantially lessens pain and blood loss, is cosmetically appealing and a provides much shorter recovery. more