Why the study?
Despite the widespread use of minimally invasive methods in cardiac surgery, their application in post-infarction left ventricular myocardial aneurysms is not common.
Population
One 66-year-old patient with a post-infarction left ventricle aneurysm and ventricular thrombosis
Comparison
Left anterolateral thoracotomy beating-heart reconstruction using the Dor method
Design
Case report
Authors
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Supports feasibility of thoracotomy-based Dor repair in select cases; leaves open need for prospective validation before wider adoption.
Minimally invasive left anterolateral thoracotomy on a beating heart is a feasible and safe approach for geometric reconstruction of post-infarction left ventricular aneurysms.
Aigumov et al. (2024) studied this question.
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