title: Beating heart totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass.
abstract: Robotic coronary surgery has the potential advantages of decreasing surgical trauma, decreasing postoperative recovery period compared to conventional surgery, and provides surgeons the possibility to offer a competitive tool in response to the technological improvements of interventional cardiology. Since 2007, many technical issues have been solved by the new generation of robotic devices, allowing a safer, more reliable and reproducible totally endoscopic coronary bypass, on the beating heart.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Europe Hospitals, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Jean-Luc
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Jansens