Recent Innovations in Cardiac Surgery

Kyle G. Miletic, a cardiac surgeon at Henry Ford Health and one of this year’s Top Docs, discusses some of the biggest recent innovations in his field.
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What are some recent innovations in your field that you鈥檙e excited about?

We are pushing forward to adapt more and more operations to a minimally invasive approach, giving our patients the best of both worlds 鈥 the long-term benefits that only surgery can provide with fewer of the drawbacks like longer recovery.

Also, for patients with heart failure, we can offer better therapies 鈥 from improved long-term heart pumps to better outcomes with heart transplants that can give patients decades of life that they would not otherwise have.

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