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Minimally Invasive Congenital Cardiac Surgery: A Large Volume European Experience

Alvise Guariento^1,2, Ilias P. Doulamis³, David Blitzer⁴, Claudia Cattapan², Massimo A. Padalino², Vladimiro L. Vida^2,*

1 Labatt Family Heart Centre, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5G 1X8, Canada
2 Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padua, Padua, 35128, Italy
3 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02115, USA
4 Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA

* Corresponding Author: Vladimiro L. Vida. Email: