Objective Minimally invasive aortic valve replacementsurgery (MIAVR) is an alternative
surgical technique to conventional aortic valve replacement surgery (AVR) in selected …

Background Trans-right axillary aortic valve replacement (TAX-AVR) remains uncommon.
We developed a special method to pull the heart closer to the right chest wall to make the …

Background: Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement (AVR) via upper ministernotomy
(MiniAVR) is a standard alternative to full sternotomy access. Minimally invasive cardiac …

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was initially developed for the treatment of
calcific aortic stenosis. In the recent years, however, TAVI has been used to treat selected …

Background: This study aimed to assess long-term results after surgical AVR (sAVR)
depending on the used surgical technique (ministernotomy v s. full sternotomy) and to …

Background Sutureless prostheses may have added benefit when combined with minimal
access surgery, although this has not been fully assessed in the literature. This study aims to …

Severe symptomatic aortic valve stenosis (AS) is associated with high mortality and for
decades treatment was only feasible by cardiac surgery. Clinical outcomes and durability of …

La técnica de implante valvular aórtico transcatéter (que denominaremos TAVI en esta
revisión) demostró ser altamente eficaz en pacientes con estenosis aórtica severa …

Minimally invasive aortic valve surgery by definition means performing procedures through
alternative approaches without the need to divide the sternum completely. Even though this …

Objective The right anterior lateral thoracotomy (RALT) approach for aortic valve
replacement provides excellent outcomes in expert hands while avoiding sternal disruption …