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SUBMITTER: Nakamura T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3766050 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nakamura Teruya T Izutani Hironori H Sekiya Naosumi N Nakazato Taro T Sawa Yoshiki Y
Journal of cardiothoracic surgery 20130830
Mitral valve reoperation, through a median sternotomy, for a patient with patent coronary bypass grafts is technically challenging and carries higher postoperative morbidity and mortality than a primary operation. We present a case of mitral valve repair using a beating heart technique under normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass that was performed 3 years after a coronary artery bypass operation. A limited (10 cm) right thoracotomy was made and cardiopulmonary bypass was conducted using the ascend ...[more]