Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement - pros and cons of keyhole aortic surgery.
Over the last twenty years, minimally invasive aortic valve replacement (MIAVR) has evolved into a safe, well-tolerated and efficient surgical treatment option for aortic valve disease. It has been shown to reduce postoperative morbidity, providing faster recovery and rehabilitation, shorter hospital stay and better cosmetic results compared with conventional surgery. A variety of minimally invasive accesses have been developed and utilized to date. This concise review demonstrates and discusses surgical techniques used in contemporary approaches to MIAVR and presents the most important results of MIAVR procedures.
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Transplantation and Endovascular Surgery, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland.
Marcin
M
Kaczmarczyk
Cardiac Surgery Department, Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland.
Przemysław
P
Szałański
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Transplantation and Endovascular Surgery, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland.
Michał
M
Zembala
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Transplantation and Endovascular Surgery, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland.
Krzysztof
K
Filipiak
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Transplantation and Endovascular Surgery, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland.
Wojciech
W
Karolak
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Transplantation and Endovascular Surgery, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland.
Jacek
J
Wojarski
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Transplantation and Endovascular Surgery, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland.
Marcin
M
Garbacz
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Transplantation and Endovascular Surgery, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland.
Aleksandra
A
Kaczmarczyk
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Transplantation and Endovascular Surgery, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland.
Anna
A
Kwiecień
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Transplantation and Endovascular Surgery, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland.
Marian
M
Zembala
aortic valve; minimally invasive minithoracotomy; ministernotomy