Key result
Right minithoracotomy provides a feasible minimally invasive alternative to median sternotomy for aortic valve replacement.
Why the study?
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery offers an alternative to conventional median sternotomy, but requires dedicated skills and experience from surgeons, anesthetists, and perfusionists for a successful result. This article demonstrates a surgical approach for aortic valve replacement through a right minithoracotomy.
Demonstrates the surgical technique for minimally invasive aortic valve replacement via a right minithoracotomy as an alternative to conventional median sternotomy.
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Supports feasibility of right minithoracotomy AVR in select patients; leaves open randomized comparisons of outcomes versus sternotomy.
Minimally-invasive operative techniques have many advantages, such as less postoperative pain, lower morbidity and mortality, faster recovery, and shorter duration of operation and hospital stay, associated with lower costs. Minimally invasive cardiac surgery has been developed to offer patients the benefits of open heart operations with decreased pain and limited skin incision. It has been popularized as an alternative to the conventional median sternotomy approach. These techniques require some dedicated skills and experience from surgeons, anesthetists, and perfusionists for a successful result. In this article we demonstrate our surgical approach for aortic valve replacement through a right minithoracotomy.
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Glauber et al. (2006) studied Aortic valve disease requiring aortic valve replacement. Aortic valve replacement through a right minithoracotomy vs. Conventional median sternotomy approach was evaluated. Aortic valve replacement through a right minithoracotomy is demonstrated as a minimally invasive surgical alternative to conventional median sternotomy.