“Haircut” Mitral Valve Repair: Posterior Leaflet-Plasty
Fig. 15.1 A large P2 posterior leaflet with nearly all edge chords ruptured (flail leaflet). Here, P2 functions independent (clefts) of adjacent P1 or P3 scallops. There is no support…
Simplifying Mitral Valve Repair: Limited Leaflet Resections and Neo-Chord Replacements
Fig. 14.1 (a) Triangular leaflet resection repair: The area of segmental prolapse is identified. The triangular resection includes the prolapsing posterior leaflet with the triangle “point” extending to the valve…
Robotic Mitral Repair: “Running Suture” Annuloplasty
Fig. 22.1 Flexible partial annuloplasty band insertion—running suture technique. (a) First suture is tied at right trigone and run clockwise to mid-portion of annulus. (b) Second suture is tied at…
Leaflet Folding Plasty
Fig. 16.1 Folding Leaflet-plasty: (a) A 4-0 polypropylene suture is passed from the annulus, behind the elongated leaflet, emerging through the coapting edge. The needle then is passed back through…
Simplifying Mitral Valve Repair: Leaflet Imbrication
Fig. 13.1 Flail P2 segment from chordal rupture Leaflet Remodeling The leading edge of the flail or prolapsed leaflet, next to the ruptured or elongated chord, is grasped with a…
Totally Endoscopic Coronary Bypass Surgery Robotic on Pump (TECAB)
Fig. 7.1 Robotic AH-TECAB: port placement: a robotic 3-D camera trocar (C) is placed in the fourth ICS, near the anterior axillary line. The right and left robotic arm trocars…
Building a Cardiac Surgical Robotic Program
Fig. 2.1 Program development: key factors To maintain a collaborative working environment, regularly scheduled interest group meetings provide a venue for teams to discuss operative successes and difficulties. During early…
Clinical Outcomes in Robotic Cardiac Surgery
W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr. (ed.)Atlas of Robotic Cardiac Surgery201410.1007/978-1-4471-6332-9_6 © Springer-Verlag London 2014 6. Clinical Outcomes in Robotic Cardiac Surgery Ansar Hassan1, Paul Modi2 and T. Bruce FergusonJr.3 (1) Department of Cardiac Surgery, New Brunswick Heart Centre, Saint…
Congenital and developmental lung malformations
A. Prenatal ultrasound exam of a compressive CPAM of the left lung at 23 WG. The heart is displaced to the right by a macrocystic lesion of 58-mm diameter with…
Surgical aspects of infectious conditions of the lung
Figure 9.1 Time-scale and overlapping of stages of thoracic empyema. [Adapted from Molnar 2007.] In a normal, healthy person, pleural fluid amounts to less than 1 ml. The early simple…
