Port Access Cardiac Surgery.
The port-access technique for cardiac surgery was recently developed at Stanford University in California as a less invasive method to perform some cardiac operations. The port-access system has been described in detail elsewhere. It is based on femoral arterial and venous access for cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and on the adoption of a specially designed triple-lumen catheter described originally by Peters, and subsequently modified and developed in the definitive configuration called the endoaortic clamp.
Viganó
Mario
M
Consultant Surgeon, Department of Cardiac Surgery, I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico S. Matteo, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Minzioni
Gaetano
G
Spreafico
Patrizio
P
Rinaldi
Mauro
M
Pasquino
Stefano
S
Ceriana
Piero
P
Locatelli
Alessandro
A