This piece describes a method of performing minimally invasive aortic valve surgery.
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Expert Techniques
May 24, 2008
Patients are selected for bilateral closed chest pulmonary vein (PV) isolation, left atrial appendage excision, directed partial cardiac denervation, and PV electrocardiograms (MiniMAZE-Wolf technique), based on the following criteria...
May 24, 2008
Operative Steps
Incision
A midline sternotomy is generally employed
A minimal approach using a lower ½ sternotomy may also be employed.
Cardiopulmonary bypass
September 26, 2006
Drs. Pelletier and Jacobs have given us a beautiful series of drawings illustrating the technique for these two Stage II operations for patients with a single ventricle. It is very interesting that the results of the two different techniques, as shown in Table 1, are nearly identical.