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Technique and Patient Selection Criteria of Right Anterior Mini-Thoracotomy for Minimal Access Aortic Valve Replacement
Published on: March 26, 2018
Giuseppe Santarpino1,2,3, Roberto Lorusso4, Armin Darius Peivandi5
1Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Graecia University, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy.
Minimally invasive sutureless aortic valve replacement (AVR) significantly reduces in-hospital mortality compared to conventional AVR. This approach shows favorable immediate outcomes, though EuroSCORE II may not accurately predict results in this group.
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