title: Minimal access reoperative mitral and aortic valve surgery.
abstract: Minimally invasive cardiac surgery has allowed surgeons to perform valve procedures with a morbidity and mortality comparable with conventional resternotomy approaches while reducing postoperative ventilatory and intensive care unit requirements and overall hospital length of stay. Additionally, patient satisfaction with rapid recovery, earlier return to work, and improved cosmetic results has pushed the pendulum of reoperative valve surgery towards minimally invasive techniques. We reviewed our institutional data consisting of 129 patients requiring reoperative valve surgery over the past 4 years, which was accomplished using these minimally invasive approaches.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York University Medical Center, 530 First Avenue, Suite 9V, New York, NY 10016, USA. grossi@cv.med.nyu.edu
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Grossi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: LaPietra
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bizekis
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ribakove
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Galloway
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Colvin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D011379:Prognosis; D012086:Reoperation; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome