Baird Christopher W, Stamou Sotiris C, Skipper Eric, Watts Larry
Levine Children's Hospital, Carolinas Medical Center, 1001 Blythe Blvd, Charlotte, NC, USA.
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2007 Dec;6(6):828-9. doi: 10.1510/icvts.2007.158626. Epub 2007 Sep 12.
Computerized robotic enhancement has recently emerged as a promising technology to facilitate minimally invasive cardiac surgery. We report the first totally endoscopic closure of an atrial septal defect in a child using the da Vinci robot and hypothermic fibrillation.