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Minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) aims to reduce surgical trauma without compromising on completeness of reconstruction, myocardial protection and long-term outcome.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"pmpro\"><div class=\"pmpro_card pmpro_content_message\"><div class=\"pmpro_card_content\">Dieser Inhalt ist nur f\u00fcr Benutzer der Gruppe: Medizinische Fachperson zug\u00e4nglich <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/my-account\/packages\/\">Jetzt beitreten<\/a><\/div><div class=\"pmpro_card_actions pmpro_font-medium\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/log-in\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmedizinonline.com%2Fen%2Fminimally-invasive-the-quiet-triumph-of-modern-heart-surgery%2F\">Log in here<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The median sternotomy was the standard approach for cardiac surgery for many decades. With the advent of minimally invasive procedures, the guiding question of cardiac surgery shifted: away from maximum&#8230;&hellip;... <\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro\"><div class=\"pmpro_card pmpro_content_message\"><div class=\"pmpro_card_content\">Dieser Inhalt ist nur f\u00fcr Benutzer der Gruppe: Medizinische Fachperson zug\u00e4nglich <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/my-account\/packages\/\">Jetzt beitreten<\/a><\/div><div class=\"pmpro_card_actions pmpro_font-medium\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/log-in\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmedizinonline.com%2Fen%2Fminimally-invasive-the-quiet-triumph-of-modern-heart-surgery%2F\">Log in here<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":553463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","cat_1_feature_home_top":false,"cat_2_editor_pick":false,"csco_eyebrow_text":"Cardiology","footnotes":""},"category":[11548,11359,22615,11503,11380],"tags":[90961,16277,90949,90957,90952,90962,90954,90959,90947,90951],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"class_list":["post-553461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rx-en","category-cardiology","category-cme-continuing-education","category-studies","category-surgery","tag-aortic-valve-surgery","tag-cardiac-surgery","tag-mics","tag-midcab","tag-minimal-invasiveness","tag-minimally-invasive-direct-coronary-artery-bypass","tag-minimally-invasive-heart-surgery","tag-myocardial-protection","tag-sternotomy","tag-thoracic-stability","pmpro-level-required","pmpro-level-1","pmpro-no-access"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 13:32:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":{"fr_FR":{"locale":"fr_FR","id":553460,"slug":"mini-invasif-le-triomphe-silencieux-de-la-chirurgie-cardiaque-moderne","post_title":"Mini-invasif - le triomphe silencieux de la chirurgie cardiaque moderne","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/fr\/mini-invasif-le-triomphe-silencieux-de-la-chirurgie-cardiaque-moderne\/"},"it_IT":{"locale":"it_IT","id":553467,"slug":"minimamente-invasiva-il-trionfo-silenzioso-della-chirurgia-cardiaca-moderna","post_title":"Minimamente invasiva - il trionfo silenzioso della chirurgia cardiaca moderna","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/it\/minimamente-invasiva-il-trionfo-silenzioso-della-chirurgia-cardiaca-moderna\/"},"pt_PT":{"locale":"pt_PT","id":553510,"slug":"minimamente-invasiva-o-triunfo-silencioso-da-cirurgia-cardiaca-moderna","post_title":"Minimamente invasiva - o triunfo silencioso da cirurgia card\u00edaca moderna","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/pt-pt\/minimamente-invasiva-o-triunfo-silencioso-da-cirurgia-cardiaca-moderna\/"},"es_ES":{"locale":"es_ES","id":553513,"slug":"minimamente-invasiva-el-triunfo-silencioso-de-la-cirugia-cardiaca-moderna","post_title":"M\u00ednimamente invasiva: el triunfo silencioso de la cirug\u00eda card\u00edaca moderna","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/es\/minimamente-invasiva-el-triunfo-silencioso-de-la-cirugia-cardiaca-moderna\/"}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553466,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553461\/revisions\/553466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category?post=553461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553461"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=553461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}