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Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery
Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 2001Cardiac surgery has been the last area of clinical surgery to adopt and embrace minimally invasive surgical techniques. Since the onset of arterial embolectomy in 1965, arthroscopic knee surgery performed in 1975 and laparoscopic cholecystectomy in 1985, huge advances in videoscopic, thorascopic and small incision surgery has taken place in all ...
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Update on mitral valve surgery
Journal of Artificial Organs, 2005Recently, the outcome for patients with mitral valve disease has significantly improved. This may be due to concomitant advances in many fields. In particular, the development of surgical techniques has contributed to this improvement, and many surgical techniques and topics are introduced in this article.
Hiroshi, Tsuneyoshi, Masashi, Komeda
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Valve Implants in Filtering Surgery
American Journal of Ophthalmology, 1976A valve implant for glaucoma incorporated upper and lower intraocular pressure limits for outflow. The device consisted of an open Supramid tube sealed to a Silastic tube with a slit valve. The valve implants had opening pressures of 11 to 16 mm Hg and closing pressures 1 to 3 mm Hg lower.
T, Krupin +3 more
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Surgery of prosthetic valve thrombosis
European Heart Journal, 1984From January 1978 to August 1983, 41 prosthetic valve thromboses in 34 patients were operated upon in our service. They comprised 15 aortic, 25 mitral and one tricuspid valve thromboses. Seven patients had massive thrombus with dysfunction of the prosthesis; others had small and disseminated thrombi on their prosthesis (34 patients).
A. Pavie +5 more
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Aortic valve surgery in children
Heart, 2011In the 1980s, the management of aortic valve disease in children was revolutionised by the introduction of balloon valvuloplasty, and in the 1990s by the adoption of the Ross procedure by the surgical community.w1 w2 In the last decade, balloon dilatation of aortic valve disease in children has become standard practice in many centres.
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Aortic Valve Surgery in the Elderly
Cardiology in Review, 2000As the population ages, aortic valve replacement, particularly for aortic stenosis, has become more common. Although many patients have considerable coexisting morbidity, almost all symptomatic patients are candidates for surgery. Once symptoms develop, surgery should not be unduly delayed, because the operative mortality clearly increases in the ...
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Reconstructive surgery of the aortic valve
British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2017Reconstructive surgery of the aortic valve is a safe alternative to aortic valve replacement in many patients with aortic regurgitation, with satisfactory durability and an overall and cardiovascular survival advantage. It is also associated with higher rates of freedom from valve-related and anticoagulation-related events.
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Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery
Surgical Clinics of North America, 2009Traditional cardiac valve replacement surgery is being rapidly supplanted by innovative, minimally invasive approaches toward the repair of these valves. Patients are experiencing benefits ranging from less bleeding and pain to faster recovery and greater satisfaction.
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Evolution of Mitral Valve Surgery
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1958Evolution of Modern Medicine This section, which has as its primary purpose a review of the contributions of medical investigators and observers of the past to the present-day concepts of disease, is under the special editorship of Dr. Arthur Bloomfield, 2398 Sacramento St., San Francisco 15 . His editorial in the August, 1957, issue of the A. M. A.
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