Correspondence to Professor Marjan Jahangiri, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. George’s Hospital, London SW17 OQT, UK; marjan.jahangiri{at}stgeorges.nhs.uk Minimally invasive aortic valve ...

Open heart surgery for aortic or mitral valve repair or replacement has traditionally required opening the patient’s chest through their sternum (breast bone). In many cases today, a minimally ...

The results of a new clinical trial have overturned the “wait and see” approach that cardiologists have long favored for ...

The beating heart minimally invasive mitral valve surgery has a proposed benefit in avoiding the ... mitral valve through a right limited thoracotomy without application of an aortic cross-clamp ...

Since Cosgrove and Sabik first described minimally invasive aortic valve surgery in 1996, [74] there has been a significant expansion in popularity, experience and techniques associated with ...

while enabling complete removal of the calcified valve. The increase in use of SU-AVR has been mostly driven by minimally invasive surgery. Other indications include patients with a small and/or ...

offers a more complete picture to the ongoing dialogue comparing the minimally invasive heart procedure–called transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR–to open-heart surgery. “Our data at five ...

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The valve replacement is typically an open-heart surgery. A minimally invasive surgery or a catheter procedure to replace the aortic valve may be an option for some people. During open-heart valve ...

They can be implanted after removal of the aortic stenosis with ... emergency valve in valve implantation, conversion to conventional surgery and vascular complications. A few cases of ...