Videoassisted mitral valve replacement
The surgery of the mitral valve has been a great challenge since the beginnings of the cardiovascular surgery, the surgical options to board this valverange from percutaneous methods to dilate it, till the substitution for a prosthetic heart valve through a median sternotomy. In our country the mitr...
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ECIMED,
2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | The surgery of the mitral valve has been a great challenge since the beginnings of the cardiovascular surgery, the surgical options to board this valverange from percutaneous methods to dilate it, till the substitution for a prosthetic heart valve through a median sternotomy. In our country the mitral valvesubstitution is done through the median sternotomy and right thoracotomy methods. The case of a 56 year-old feminine patient, with antecedents ofsevere, symptomatic mitral insufficiency, with indication of mitral valve substitution that was intervened with a novel technique of minimum access videoassisted,is presented. |
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| Item Description: | 0864-2168 1561-2937 |