Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
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We report our experience with repair of a variety of congenital heart defects utilizing a ministernotomy incision. A ministernotomy was used in 79 patients with a variety of congenital heart diseases from November 2004 to August 2007. Patients included 36 males and 43 females with ages ranging from 1 month to 122 months (median age, 22 months). ⋯ The intensive care unit (ICU) stay ranged from 1 to 21 days (median ICU stay, 1 day) and the hospital stay ranged from 2 to 56 days (median hospital stay, 4 days). There were no reinterventions for residual cardiac defects. We demonstrate the safety and efficacy of ministernotomy for the correction of a range of congenital heart defects with improved cosmetic results.
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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Nov 2009
Early calcification of the aortic Mitroflow pericardial bioprosthesis in the elderly.
We report our experience in the elderly with aortic valve replacement using the Mitroflow A12 pericardial bioprosthesis. ⋯ The Mitroflow A12 pericardial bioprosthesis provides less than optimal performance in elderly patients.