Husam H. Balkhy · Decision guide
Fully endoscopic beating-heart bypass through ports · Chicago, United States
Husam Balkhy leads robotic cardiac surgery at UChicago Medicine. His named CABG technique is totally endoscopic beating-heart bypass, including selected multivessel and hybrid procedures.
The institutional profile identifies totally endoscopic beating-heart coronary bypass, rather than using robotic surgery as a generic label.
Sources: Husam H. Balkhy, MD
In the 544-patient 2013–2020 cohort, 56% underwent multivessel TECAB and one operation converted to sternotomy.
Early graft patency was 97% in assessed hybrid-revascularization patients, a subgroup of the cohort.
cardiac surgeon
Professor of Surgery; Director of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Professor of Surgery; Director of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery · Chicago, United States.
Read the clinical or research source ↗Personal operations · Cumulative by September 2024; start unspecified · published 2024-09-19 · counting date 2024-09-19
Minimally invasive robot-assisted cardiac procedures across CABG, valves, ablation and congenital defects.
Former US attorney general chooses UChicago Medicine for robotic heart surgery ↗ · source read 2026-10-08Programme operations · Cumulative; counting cutoff not stated
Totally endoscopic coronary bypass using a robot and small chest ports. The hospital attributes this count to its surgical programme.
UChicago Medicine: totally endoscopic coronary bypass programme ↗ · source read 2026-10-08Your diagnosis, selected specialist and treatment priorities.
Sources: Husam H. Balkhy, MD · Robotic off-pump totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass in the current era: report of 544 patients.
Sources: Husam H. Balkhy, MD · Robotic off-pump totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass in the current era: report of 544 patients.
Balkhy was first author of the retrospective 2013–2020 series: 56% underwent multivessel TECAB, one case converted to sternotomy and reported mortality was 0.9%. Early graft patency was 97% in the assessed hybrid-revascularization patients.
How to interpret this: Single-centre selected cohort, mean STS risk 1.7%; patency was assessed in a subgroup. These are historical programme results, not a guarantee or a current personal success rate.
Chicago, United States
UChicago’s robotic cardiac programme is led by Husam Balkhy and specifically describes totally endoscopic beating-heart CABG. Its published experience includes bypass to several vessels and hybrid treatment combining bypass with stents.
Sources: Husam H. Balkhy, MD · Robotic off-pump totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass in the current era: report of 544 patients.
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