 Hello, I am Dr. Murli Krishna, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Manipal Hospital in Bangalore. Minimal Invasive Cardiac Surgery as the name implies is doing cardiac surgery in a less invasive way using minimal incisions. Those incisions can be minimal as in a sense it can be very short or it can be in an area which is completely hidden in the body. So that's all that is about Minimal Invasive Cardiac Surgery. It's required whenever we need any intervention on the heart, any surgical procedure required on the heart you can either go about it in a conventional way as in when cutting the sternum or the breast bone or you can if you don't want to avoid that you can go in a minimal invasive way as in axillary incision or anti-rotoracotomy.