Abstract
The aim of minimally or less invasive techniques in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is to reduce surgical trauma and morbidity of cardiopulmonary bypass and thereby to shorten length of stay in the intensive care unit as well as total hospital length of stay [1]. Access to the target coronary vessels by the new minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting (MIDCAB) techniques is gained via minithoracotomy [1,2], ministernotomy [3] and parasternal [4] or subxiphoid incisions which are thought to cause less trauma to the patient than standard sternotomy. Rates of wound infections after MIDCAB cannot be estimated at present and exact techniques to treat these complications have not yet been reported.
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