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Mini-partial heart autotransplantation facilitates simultaneous mitral valve surgery and safer Cox-maze III for AF.
Describes a novel mini-partial heart autotransplantation technique to facilitate the Cox-maze III procedure alongside mitral valve surgery.
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May enable combined mitral and Cox-maze III surgery in select patients; leaves open need for prospective validation before wider adoption.
The Cox-maze III procedure is the gold standard for the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation. Because of its complexity, this procedure has not been widely accepted by cardiac surgeons. We describe a technique that allows one to work on the mitral valve while more safely performing the standard 'cut-and-sew' Cox-maze III procedure at the same time.
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Ovidio A Garcı́a-Villarreal (2015) studied this question. Mini-partial heart autotransplantation allows surgeons to simultaneously address the mitral valve and more safely perform the standard cut-and-sew Cox-maze III procedure for atrial fibrillation.
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