Background Over the past two decades, minimally invasive techniques for classic heart
valve surgery and isolated bypass surgery have been developed that enable access to the …

Robotic and minimally invasive mitral valve (MV) procedures have been performed with
increasing frequency over time. These alternatives offer similar efficacy to that achieved via …

OBJECTIVES With the popularization of catheter-based mitral valve procedures, evaluating
risk-specific differentiated clinical outcomes after contemporary mitral valve surgery is …

Background Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery is becoming a gold standard and
provides many advantages for patients. A learning curve is required for a surgeon to …

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

In the mid-to late-1990s the cardiac surgery community began to apply limited incisions in
mitral valve surgery. Ministernotomies and right-sided minithoracotomies were placed …

Objective Transapical off-pump beating-heart neochord implantation (NC) has shown
encouraging early results in patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation. The aim of this …

Objective Minimally invasive surgery is increasingly adopted as an alternative to
conventional sternotomy for mitral valve pathology in many centres worldwide. A systematic …

Objectives Conventional mitral valve surgery through median sternotomy improves long-
term survival with acceptable morbidity and mortality. However, less-invasive approaches to …

Totally endoscopic robotic mitral valve repair represents the least invasive surgical therapy
for mitral valve disease. Comparative results for robotic mitral valve surgery against …