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Video-assisted Port-Access combined mitral valve and CABG surgery
P Schroeyers1, F Farhat, F Van Praet
1OLV Ziekenhuis, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Aalst, Belgium.
The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
|December 29, 2000
Abstract:
Although conventional right thoracotomy is a well-known alternative for mid-sternotomy to access the left atrium, a combined video-assisted mitral and left anterior descending (LAD) approach via Port-Access has not yet been described. We report the case of a 68-year-old patient with severe mitral valve regurgitation due to myxoid degeneration associated with a critical LAD coronary artery stenosis. A totally video-assisted 'true' Port-Access (i.e. no costal retraction) mitral valve repair and direct coronary artery bypass were performed in combination, without complications.