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closed-heart surgery

DEFINITIONS OF: closed-heart surgery

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n heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened)

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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