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Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery requires careful patient selection, preoperative planning, and meticulous attention to surgical detail to avoid severe complications.
Provides a stepwise description of minimally invasive mitral valve surgery, highlighting safeguards, pitfalls, and anatomical concepts.
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Emphasizes rigorous patient selection and technique for minimally invasive mitral valve surgery; leaves open the need for prospective trials defining optimal candidates.
Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery has been established in many institutions worldwide. Appropriate indications and patient selection for this procedure must be based on a thorough understanding of its limitations and specific pitfalls. Particular risks can be minimized with careful attention to detail when planning and performing the surgery. The following chapter offers a stepwise description of the procedure; we point out particular advantages, discuss our rationale for certain steps, as well as focus on potential dangers of minimally invasive mitral valve surgery. Several graphics have also been provided to illustrate our approach and demonstrate important structural and anatomical concepts of the mitral valve apparatus.
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Czesla et al. (2013) conducted a review in Mitral valve pathology. Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery was evaluated. Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery requires careful patient selection, preoperative planning, and meticulous attention to surgical detail to avoid severe complications.
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