US Procedure Numbers for Cardiac Surgery and Heart Valve Devices 2018; New Report Launched
Recently, minimally invasive cardiac surgery has started to gain popularity among surgeons and patients. Minimally invasive procedures allow for reduced hospitalization and less scarring. The growth of the minimally invasive procedures comes from the cannibalization of the open-heart surgery procedures. Currently, many types of minimally invasive procedures do not have FDA approval. As more products get FDA approved, the minimally invasive procedures are expected to grow at a much higher rate and cause the open-heart procedures to decline.
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