First-Ever “High-Risk” Heart Bypass Performed Without Opening Patient’s Chest Is A Success

Photo credit: Robina Weermeijer via Unsplash. Article by Benjamin Taub. IFLScience – January 14, 2026. Case report: Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions.

A patient who needed lifesaving heart surgery has become the first person ever to receive a coronary artery bypass without being cut open. Such a procedure would usually require open heart surgery, yet doctors successfully performed the operation using minimally invasive techniques that removed the need for a scalpel. […]

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