Robotically Enhanced Totally Endoscopic Right Internal Thoracic Coronary Artery Bypass to the Right Coronary Artery

(#2000-33418 ... August 23, 2000)

Tayfun Aybek, MD ¹, Selami Dogan, MD ¹, Eva Andreßen, ¹ Stefan Mierdl, MD², Klaus Westphal, MD², Anton Moritz, MD¹, Gerhard Wimmer-Greinecker, MD¹

¹Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
²Department of Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

ABSTRACT

Computer-enhanced telemanipulation systems allow totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting. This report demonstrates the feasibility of a coronary artery anastomosis between the right internal thoracic artery and the right coronary artery using the daVinci™ surgical system (Intuitive Surgical, Inc, Mountain View, CA).

AUTHOR/ARTICLE INFORMATION

Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Tayfun Aybek, MD, Klinik für Thorax-, Herz- und thorakale Gefäßchirurgie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Theodor Stern Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt, Phone: +49 69 6301 6141, Fax: +49 69 96741522, Email : T.Aybek@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Submitted August 21, 2000; accepted August 23, 2000.

Keywords : coronary artery bypass grafting, minimally invasive, totally endoscopic cardiac operation, robotically enhanced cardiac surgery