Minimally invasive treatment of multiple valve disease: A modified approach through a right lateral minithoracotomy.
Francesco MusumeciAntonio LioAndrea MontaltoMarcello BergonziniAntonio Giovanni CammardellaMarina ComissoFrancesca NicolòFederico RanocchiPublished in: Journal of cardiac surgery (2019)
Minimally invasive surgery of double and triple valve disease is feasible. Our approach through a lateral RmT allows optimal visualization of the aortic, mitral, and tricuspid valves, simplifies the surgical procedure and allows excellent results also in complex MV repair procedures.
Keyphrases
- aortic valve
- minimally invasive
- mitral valve
- aortic stenosis
- aortic valve replacement
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- left ventricular
- ejection fraction
- left atrial
- robot assisted
- heart failure
- coronary artery disease
- pulmonary hypertension
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- electron microscopy