Minimal Access Aortic Valve Surgery

Minimal access tricuspid valve surgery.

The minimally invasive, right mini-thoracotomy technique described can be applied to patients that require a concomitant tricuspid valve repair or replacement at the time of a mitral valve procedure. This has been the most common scenario where tricuspid valve surgery is performed. This approach is applicable to patients requiring isolated tricuspid valve surgery. In addition, patients who have...

Aortic Valve Surgery

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Timing of aortic valve surgery.

Minimally invasive aortic valve surgery

Aortic valve disease is a prevalent disorder that affects approximately 2% of the general adult population. Surgical aortic valve replacement is the gold standard treatment for symptomatic patients. This treatment has demonstrably proven to be both safe and effective. Over the last few decades, in an attempt to reduce surgical trauma, different minimally invasive approaches for aortic valve rep...

Surgery of the Aortic Valve.

ESSENTIALLY all forms of aortic-valve disease can now be repaired or relieved by surgical techniques. In spite of this high degree of attainment, much remains to be accomplished in the evolution of improved techniques and materials and in the evaluation of the adequacy of these methods. The early operative result, the long-standing permanence of the correction, and the durability of prosthetic ...