title: Cardiac stabilizer for minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass.
abstract: We describe a simple and effective device that is useful in reducing cardiac motion, enabling the surgeon to perform a precise direct left internal mammary artery anastomosis to the left anterior descending coronary artery on a beating heart.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. b865721@mailserv.cuhk.edu.hk
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Izzat
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Yim
mesh_terms: D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D007103:Immobilization; D013525:Surgical Instruments