The successful progress in technology permits the cardiac surgery to be done using new ground-breaking techniques on selected populations. But there are now many options for heart surgery that can be performed such as the Traditional Full Sternotomy, Modified Partial Sternotomy, surgeries with smaller incisions, the Vein Harvesting using endoscopic surgery and the latest technology which uses robot-assisted heart surgery.

Today, many of the above measures can be performed without the use of the heart-lung bypass machine, which also lessens some related difficulties with its use. But despite the various options on heart surgery, heart diseases are still the number one deadly disease on the earth. So, I guess prevention is indeed better than cure. Healthy lifestyle is the best answer to avoid Heart Surgery.