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.
Consultant Surgeon, Department of Cardiac Surgery, I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico S. Matteo, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
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