title: Reviewing hybrid coronary revascularization: challenges, controversies and opportunities.
abstract: Two main approaches to myocardial revascularization currently exist, coronary artery bypass and percutaneous coronary intervention. In patients with advanced coronary artery disease, coronary artery bypass surgery is associated with improved long term outcomes while percutaneous coronary intervention is associated with lower periprocedural complications. A new approach has emerged in the last decade that attempts to reap the benefits of bypass surgery and stenting while minimizing the shortcomings of each approach. This new approach, hybrid coronary revascularization, has shown encouraging early results. Minimally invasive techniques for bypass surgery have played a large part of bringing this approach into contemporary practice.
authors.affiliation: a Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery , Emory University School of Medicine , Atlanta , GA , USA.
authors.forename: Michael O
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Kayatta
authors.affiliation: a Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery , Emory University School of Medicine , Atlanta , GA , USA.
authors.forename: Michael E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Halkos
mesh_terms: D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D009204:Myocardial Revascularization / Q000379:methods*; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / Q000379:methods; D015607:Stents; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: CABG; Hybrid coronary revascularization; MIDCAB; OPCAB; PCI; coronary artery disease; minimally invasive cardiac surgery; myocardial revascularization; robotic surgery