Current readings: Status of robotic cardiac surgery.
Robotic surgery has been applied to various fields in cardiac surgery. Despite excellent results published in the literature, critics have questioned procedure reproducibility, increased cost, and the real patient benefit. We reviewed 5 recent articles to show that robotic cardiac surgery likely will play an important role in the new era of cardiac surgery.
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Tsuyoshi
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Kaneko
Walter Randolph
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Chitwood
Robotic cardiac surgery; atrial fibrillation; coronary artery bypass grafting; mitral valve repair; quality of life