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External Aortic Cross-Clamping and Endoaortic Balloon Occlusion in Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery

Monday, January 28, 2019

Submitted by

Claire Vernon

Source

Source Name: Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalscts.com/article/view/16539/html

Author(s)

Pietro Giorgio Malvindi, Vito Margari, Florinda Mastro, Giuseppe Visicchio, Georgios Kounakis, Antonella Favale, Pierpaolo Dambruoso, Cataldo Labriola, Carmine Carbone, Domenico Paparella

Malvindi and colleagues assessed the outcomes of aortic clamping strategies, either transthoracic cross-clamp (TTC, n = 165) or endoaortic balloon occlusion (EAO, n = 93) for patients undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve surgery. Endoaortic balloon occlusion was more commonly used for redo surgery (2% of TTC cases versus 12% of EAO cases). Cerebral stroke was more prevalent in EAO cases than TTC cases (0% versus 4.3%, p = 0.03), although after multivariate adjustment this difference was not significant. There was no difference in aortic dissection rates. The authors determined EAO to be a safe method of cross-clamping, and it is their preferred method for redo procedures.