Right mini-thoracotomy approach for grown-up congenital heart disease.
Cristina BarberoGiovanni MarchettoCarlo Pace NapoleoneClaudia CaliaErik Cura SturaMarco PocarMauro RinaldiMassimo BoffiniPublished in: Journal of cardiac surgery (2021)
Right mini-thoracotomy cardiac surgery in selected patients with GUCH allows to avoid the big scar of the sternotomy approach and to accelerate the recovery in a young population. Moreover, in redo cases, it allows the surgeon to reach the heart and the aorta avoiding the well-known risks of a re-sternotomy procedure.
Keyphrases
- aortic valve replacement
- congenital heart disease
- aortic valve
- cardiac surgery
- transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- aortic stenosis
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- acute kidney injury
- heart failure
- big data
- human health
- ejection fraction
- minimally invasive
- middle aged
- pulmonary artery
- wound healing
- risk assessment
- coronary artery disease
- climate change
- aortic dissection