Totally Endoscopic Cardiac Surgery for Atrial Septal Defect Repair on Beating Heart Without Robotic Assistance in 25 Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of the study was to investigate the effectivity and safety of totally endoscopic cardiac surgery without robotic assistance for atrial septal defect (ASD) closure on beating hearts.

Methods

Twenty-five patients (adults/children: 15/10) underwent ASD closure using nonrobotically assisted totally endoscopic approach on beating heart. Three 5-mm trocars and one 12-mm trocar were used, only the superior vena cava is snared, filling the pleural and pericardial cavities with CO2, and the heart was beating during the surgery. Twenty-three patients had isolated secundum ASD (2 of which had severe tricuspid regurgitation) and two patients had ASD combined with partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection. All ASDs were closed using artificial patch, continuous sutu

SUBMITTER: Dang QH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5737448 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov/Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature