Valvular heart disease is common and increasingly prevalent among the elderly. The end
result of valvular pathologies is cardiac failure and can lead to sudden death; thus …

Minimally invasive valve surgery represents a recent and significant advance in modern
heart surgery. Indeed, many less invasive approaches for both the aortic and mitral valves …

Widespread adoption of minimally invasive mitral valve repair and replacement may be
fostered by practice consensus and standardization. This expert opinion, first of a 3-part …

OBJECTIVES Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery (MIMVS) has been performed
increasingly for the past 2 decades; however, large comparative studies on short-and long …

Minimally invasive mitral valve operations are increasingly common in the United States, but
robotic-assisted approaches have not been widely adopted for a variety of reasons. This …

Objective To report the learning curve and early results of robotic mitral valve repairs in
comparison with propensity score–matched sternotomy controls after the adoption of a …

There is considerable interest and demand in the application of minimally invasive
techniques in cardiac surgery driven by multiple factors including patient cosmesis and …

OBJECTIVES Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery (MIMVS) through an endoscopic right
minithoracotomy is a well-established yet complex procedure that has a challenging …

Background The cannulation technique used in totally endoscopic cardiac surgery has a
significant impact on the overall prognosis of patients. However, there are no large cohort …

The field of minimally invasive cardiac surgery has undergone rapid transformation over
recent years. In this review, we provide a summary of the most current evidence supporting …