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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

Invited Commentary

Department of Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, 530 First Ave, Ste 9V, New York, NY 10016

(Email: grossi@cv.med.nyu.edu).

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The authors describe an operative experience of 181 patients with prior sternotomy who underwent mitral valve operations through a right lateral 4- to 8-cm minithoracotomy [1]. The cardiopulmonary bypass support technique used femoral vessel access and retrograde arterial perfusion. In more than 75% of these patients, the mitral operation was done without cross-clamping and with the technique of ventricular fibrillation. The authors report relatively good results—a 30-day mortality of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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