Republican Clinical Medical Centre of Belarus' President Administration introducing new cardiac surgery methods
The Cardiac Surgery Department of the Republican Clinical Medical Centre of Belarus’ President Administration is actively implementing methods of minimally invasive cardiac surgery, sb.by reports with reference to the Healthcare Ministry’s press service
The centre offers its patients the coronary bypass surgery from mini-thoracotomy with thoracoscopic removal of the internal thoracic artery; prosthetics of the aortic valve from right-sided mini-thoracotomy (without dissection of the sternum); prosthetics of the ascending aorta and aortic root reconstruction by ministernotomy (incomplete dissection of the sternum); mitral valve surgery from lateral mini-thoracotomy.
“The use of minimally invasive approaches in cardiac surgery makes it possible to minimise surgical trauma and initiate earlier activation of patients," Yuri Slobodin, the Deputy Chief Physician for Surgery, explained. “Of course, such interventions can reduce the length of stay of patients in the intensive care unit, significantly reduce the number of complications associated with total sternotomy (bleeding, wound suppuration, mediastinitis, and so on). The use of these techniques by our specialists makes it possible to consider the introduction of more complex cardiac surgery from minimally invasive approaches.”
In 2024 and in January 2025, sixty-two operations using such technologies were performed. Among them were the coronary bypass surgery, prosthetics of the aortic valve, prosthetics of the ascending aorta and reconstructive operations on the aortic root. This year, specialists have begun to perform thoracoscopic harvest of the internal thoracic artery.
