technology advances in cardiac surgery .. . we will say 'goodbye to the CEC? For the first time in Italy and 'Did you follow the repair of a mitral valve with a minimally invasive technique transapical and beating heart. The intervention 'was performed at the Cardiac Surgery Molinette hospital in Turin. With this first innovative intervention - underlines the Molinette - and 'match human trials in the Italian positioning chordal transapical.
Monday 'last year the team of Mauro Rinaldi, director of Cardiac Surgery Molinette hospital, assisted by the cardiology team to Fiorenzo Gaita, Sebastiano Marra, has carried out this operation on a patient of 52 years in Turin, suffering from prolapse with severe mitral valve insufficiency. Were included in three neocorde goretex apex of the left ventricle. It is - says the Molinette - a technique innovative and revolutionary minimally invasive way. Not be made, in fact, the opening of the sternum as previously, but a microtoracotomia left. The novelty of 'absolute' and that the entire action 'performed a beating heart without cardiopulmonary bypass. "So it's a physiological repair of mitral valve.
The patient 'back in the ward immediately after surgery and is' in good general condition. It provides for a stay of four days, rather than 'eight as in traditional surgery. The surgery you can 'do in most cases of mitral valve prolapse, and that' the main cause of mitral insufficiency in the population. As an experiment, this innovative intervention has not yet received the CE mark, but - says the Molinette - if everything goes 'well, and you will reach' successful share of 30 patients operated on, you will be able to 'get already' by the end of the year. Thus this new technique will be able to 'become routine for all patients with mitral regurgitation from prolapse
