Advances Continue in Excela Health Heart Program
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Latrobe Bulletin: Excela Health marks another milestone in the evolution of its structural heart program as clinicians now offer robot-assisted coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG).
Excela Health cardiothoracic surgeon Hiroyuki Tsukui, M.D., director of Excela’s heart surgery program, performed the health system’s first minimally invasive CABG this month, having deemed his patient an appropriate candidate for this technique.
Rather than the midline incision typically made during an open heart surgery which results in a zipper-length scar, Dr. Tsukui performed the surgery using the DaVinci robotic system through a series of keyhole-sized incisions on the side of the patient’s chest, which aligned with the openings between the ribs.
