Videoassisted mitral valve replacement

• Main Authors: Alexander Candeaux, Antonio de Arazoza Hernández, Aylen Pérez Barreda, Fausto Rodríguez Salgueiro, Osvaldo Valdés Dupeirón, Miguel Ángel Carrasco Molina
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: ECIMED 2012-01-01
• Series: Revista Cubana de Cardiología y Cirugía Cardiovascular
• Subjects: Mitral valve substitution; video-assisted; cardiovascular surgery.
• Online Access: http://www.revcardiologia.sld.cu/index.php/revcardiologia/article/view/83/222

The surgery of the mitral valve has been a great challenge since the beginnings of the cardiovascular surgery, the surgical options to board this valverange from percutaneous methods to dilate it, till the substitution for a prosthetic heart valve through a median sternotomy. In our country the mitral valvesubstitution is done through the median sternotomy and right thoracotomy methods. The case of a 56 year-old feminine patient, with antecedents ofsevere, symptomatic mitral insufficiency, with indication of mitral valve substitution that was intervened with a novel technique of minimum access videoassisted,is presented.