TY - JOUR AU - Bonatti, Johannes AU - Ramahi, Jehad AU - Hasan, Faisal AU - Edris, Ahmad AU - Bartel, Thomas AU - Nair, Ravi AU - Tuzcu, Murat AU - Suri, Rakesh AU - Mihaljevic, Tomislav PY - 2016 TI - Long-term results after robotically assisted coronary bypass surgery JF - Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery; Vol 5, No 6 (November 25, 2016): Robotic Heart Surgery (I) Y2 - 2016 KW - N2 - Background: Robotically-assisted coronary bypass grafting (CABG) was introduced in 1998 and dedicated centers have continuously applied and developed this minimally invasive method of coronary bypass surgery. While short-term results are relatively well published, data on long-term outcome are limited. In this literature review, we assessed the outcomes after robotic CABG following the first postoperative year. Methods: We searched PubMed for articles containing the terms “robotic” or “robotically assisted” and “coronary bypass”. A total of 11 papers contained long-term results. We specifically investigated survival, graft patency, freedom from angina and re-intervention, as well as freedom from major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE). Results: Five-year survival after robotic CABG was consistently consistently greater than 90% and graft patency between 3 and 5 years was reported to be above 90%. Fifteen percent to 26% of patients re-experienced angina at 3 to 5 years postoperatively. Long-term freedom from re-intervention reached the range and the 5-year freedom from MACCE rate was approximately 75%. Conclusions: According to data in the literature, long-term results after CABG carried out with the assistance of a surgical robot appear to be in line with results achieved after conventional CABG. UR - https://www.annalscts.com/article/view/12493