Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery (MIMVS) was introduced in the mid-1990s to refer to a variety of surgical techniques that avoid full sternotomy through smaller or alternative chest wall incisions, as an attempt to reduce complications, but at the same time preserve outcomes of the full sternotomy approach. In this review, different aspects of MIMVS are discussed in relation to its appro...

BACKGROUND Cannulation of the axillary artery for cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) avoids manipulation of an atherosclerotic, aneurysmal, or dissected ascending aorta. Advantages include: low risk of atheroemboli, low risk of malperfusion in dissections, and facilitates selective antegrade cerebral perfusion (SACP) during hypothermic circulatory arrest (HCA). METHODS A single surgeon's seven year...

Background Reoperation of aortic root is considered challenging because of technical difficulty and relatively low incidence of surgical indications. It is still not clear whether the redo root surgery could be performed safely although the primary Bentall procedure is a safe and established operation for aortic root surgery. We evaluated early outcomes of reaortic root replacement comparing to...

Emergency redo surgery is rare, but may be required in patients with conditions such as endocarditis, unstable angina and acute aortic dissection. To date there are no published data on the outcome of these difficult patients. Prospective consecutive data were collected from a single institution on 65 patients (51 male) undergoing coronary artery bypass grafts (27), mitral valve replacement or ...

Background: The optimal coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) technique is still evolving. This study aimed to evaluate the early results of total arterial off-pump using bilateral internal mammary arteries.
 Methods: was performed from May 2018 2019 at a cardiac surgery center in India. It included 200 patients with disease who had CABG arteries. follow-ups for three months. There were 5...