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Minimally invasive surgery refers to the use of small incisions, often to avoid cutting the breast bone and/or use of techniques to avoid the heart-lung machine. Minimally invasive surgery does require more time and is therefore not for everyone. Nevertheless, we try to do every valve operations as a minimally invasive procedure.
