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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1998;14:S1-S2
© 1998 Elsevier Science NL

World Congress of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: Overview of Proceedings

^a CCN, St Denis, France
^b Columbia Hospital at Medical City, Dallas, Texas, USA

^* Corresponding author. Service de Chirurgie Cardiovasculaire, CCN (Centre Cardiologique du Nord) 32 rue de Moulins Gémeaux, 93207 St. Denis, France. Fax: +33 1 47334143; E-mail: natafpat@worldnet.fr

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Since the 1995 introduction of minimally invasive cardiac surgery into clinical practice, there has been widespread enthusiasm, intellectual curiosity and healthy skepticism regarding the techniques and applications. Due to the relatively short life span of these procedures, accurate information regarding appropriate indications, patient selection, operative technique and results has been incomplete or lacking.

The first World Congress on Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery met in Paris, France on May 30th and 31th, 1997. The Congress was organized by La Pitié Hospital, Paris and Columbia Hospital Medical City, Dallas. The meeting was jointly sponsored by the Duke University Medical Center and La Pitié Hospital. Iradj Gandjbakhch and Alain Pavie joined the authors on the organizing committee.

The meeting was organized to serve as a platform to discuss the aforementioned issues as well as to introduce new innovations and techniques to the participants of the Congress. It was our pleasure to serve as program directors for this Congress.

The meeting was attended by over 600 surgeons from over 30 countries on six continents. In addition, representatives from 27 industry sponsors that serve the minimally invasive cardiac surgery field attended and participated in the meeting.

The program featured invited presentations from 15 invited . . . [Full Text of this Article]