Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery

At Yale New Haven Hospital our cardiac surgeons specialize in numerous minimally invasive heart surgery techniques that include small incisions to surgically treat cardiac disease.

Minimally invasive heart surgery techniques offer several advantages compared to open-chest procedures, including:

• Faster return to normal activities
• Shorter hospital stay
• Less pain and scarring after surgery

Our surgeons routinely perform less invasive heart operations that include:

• Mitral valve procedures, including right thoracotomy mitral valve repair
• Aortic stent graft repair
• Hybrid coronary revascularization
• Mini maze radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation
• Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB)
• Coronary artery procedures, including hybrid coronary revascularization, minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass and off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting  
• Aortic valve repair and replacement
• Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)