 Hi, I am Dr. Mukundan Seshadri, lead consultant in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at Manipal Hospital Whitefield in Bangalore. Today I thought I'd talk to you about recent advances in heart surgery. When you see the word heart surgery, many people get worried and think of something sinister or disastrous. However, I wanted to assure you that heart surgery has become quite safe. In fact, today I thought I'd talk about what we call as keyhole surgery. A lot of patients come and say, I want keyhole surgery. Yes, keyhole surgery or what we call in medical parlance is minimally invasive cardiac surgery or MICS. Minimally invasive cardiac surgery has become quite standardized and we are doing a lot of the surgery here in this hospital using this approach. Basically, we use this for all patients needing heart valve procedures or even people with having a small hole in the heart, they can all have this procedure through a small incision. So depending on the type of valve you need to be changed, we tailor make the incision. So if it's an aortic valve surgery, we do through a small incision in the upper part of the chest, either vertically or even laterally. For patients needing mitral valve procedures, we do it through a small incision on the right side of the chest and even bypass surgery can be done through a small incision from the left side of the chest. So what minimally invasive cardiac surgery has done is that it has made heart surgery less risky, less painful, early recovery and also gives the confidence to patients that they would need not have a very big cut down the chest. That used to be the fear of a lot of patients that we have heart surgery, then there will be a big cut down the chest and the recovery will be long. So with minimally invasive surgery or minimal access surgery or in layman's term what we call as keyhole surgery, the surgery has become much simpler, the recovery is faster and patients can get back to active lifestyle quite soon after surgery. So there's nothing to fear about heart surgery anymore. The results have become much better, they have become quite standardized and patients can recover and go home quite comfortably after heart surgery. We at Manipal Hospital in Whitefield in Bangalore have a state of the art environment and operation theaters and we have all the facilities to do minimal access surgery. We have some of the latest imaging systems, we have the latest equipment and we can assure you that with the state of the art facilities in this hospital we can bring a good result, we can get you a good result for the heart surgery.