A MIDCAB or a Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, also called quintessential minimally invasive or limited access coronary artery surgery, involves only a 10-12 cm incision in the patient's chest wall, does not use a heart - lung machine, is an off-pump procedure and thus is truly a minimally invasive surgery.

The procedure, like CABG , reroutes or bypasses blood around cardiac arteries that are congested by fatty build ups of plaque, to improve blood and oxygen supply to the heart.

Minimally invasive coronary artery bypass is generally indicated when only 1 or 2 coronary arteries need a bypass and they are located around the front of the heart.

An artery that supplies blood to chest muscles is grafted to the left anterior descending artery (an important artery located close to the chest wall). The heart continues to beat during the surgery, instead of being attached to a heart-lung machine. Surgeons can also use a slightly different approach by making small incisions in your chest and viewing the surgery on video monitors. For this procedure, called port-access coronary bypass surgery, the heart is attached to a heart-lung machine.

MIDCAB surgery has several benefits, like it results in a faster recovery, fewer complications, and less pain after surgery.The American Heart Association Council on Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery has been carefully monitoring the procedure and has suggested that MIDCAB seems to be easier on the patient and less expensive than a conventional coronary artery bypass graft.

Thus factors like shorter length of stay, less bleeding and blood trauma, faster recovery, lower infection rate, availability to more patients and low costs make the MIDCAB surgery, the surgery of choice for cardiac patients.

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