Key result
Video-assisted cardiac surgery enables feasible intracardiac tumor resection with zero operative mortality.
Why the study?
Experience with video-assisted cardiac surgical techniques for excision of intracardiac tumors is limited and requires demonstration of feasibility.
Is video-assisted cardiac surgery feasible for the excision of intracardiac tumors?
Population
3 patients with right or left atrial intracardiac tumors
Comparison
Video-assisted cardiac surgery for tumor excision without comparator
Design
Case series using video-assisted endoscopic techniques under femoro-femoral cardiopulmonary bypass
Follow-up
5 weeks to completion for survivors
Authors
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May support feasibility in select cases; leaves open need for larger prospective studies before wider adoption.
Case Report (n=3)
Is video-assisted cardiac surgery feasible for the excision of intracardiac tumors?
Video-assisted cardiac surgery is a technically feasible approach for the excision of intracardiac tumors.
Yu-Sheng Chang (1998) conducted a case report in Intracardiac tumors (n=3). Video-assisted cardiac surgery was evaluated on Tumor excision and operative mortality. Video-assisted cardiac surgery for intracardiac tumors was technically feasible in 3 patients, with no operative deaths and complete excision in 2 cases.