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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

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Department of Cardiac Surgery, Leipzig Heart Center, Struempellstrasse 39, Leipzig 04289, Germany

(Email: michael.borger@med.uni-leipzig.de).

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Lee and colleagues [1] have reviewed their 11-year period experience with 141 consecutive patients who underwent minimally invasive tricuspid valve (TV) surgery through a mini-thoracotomy. Nearly three-quarters of the patients underwent concomitant mitral valve surgery. The authors achieved very good results in these frequently challenging patients, with a perioperative mortality rate of 2% and an acceptable re-thoracotomy rate for bleeding of 6%. Long-term results were favorable, with no reoperations for TV disease, but it should be noted that echocardiographic data was available in less than one-half of the patients.

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