title: Today's promising heart frontier: minimally invasive surgery.
abstract: Cardiovascular disease claims more lives annually than the next eight leading causes of death combined. The biggest heart problem in the United States is congested "plumbing," afflicting more than 13 million Americans. Open-heart surgery estimated to be a $30 billion-a-year business.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Sweet
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration