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Fully Endoscopic Mitral Valve Repair with Percutaneous Cannulation of Groin Vessels
Published on: May 26, 2023
Robotic mitral valve plasty for isolated clefts of mitral valve leaflets
Norihiko Ishikawa1, Go Watanabe1, Kazuto Miyata2
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, NewHeart Watanabe Institute, Japan.
Abstract:
A 21-year-old female patient referred to our institute had been suffering from severe mitral valve regurgitation due to a rare anomaly: a typical cleft at the posterior mitral leaflet and the other partial one at the anterior leaflet. We successfully fixed the mitral valve using the robot-assisted totally endoscopic technique which could perform suture closure of both leaflets and annuloplasty. This communication is the first report of the robotic and totally endoscopic procedure which could treat this rare mitral anomaly.
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