Minimally invasive mitral valve repair in a marfan patient with severe scoliokyphosis

Thilo Noack; Lukas Lehmkuhl; Joerg Seeburger; Friedrich Wilhelm Mohr

doi:10.1055/s-0034-1364322

Minimally invasive mitral valve repair in a marfan patient with severe scoliokyphosis

Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Rep. 2014 Dec;3(1):1-2. doi: 10.1055/s-0034-1364322. Epub 2014 Feb 27.

Authors

Thilo Noack¹, Lukas Lehmkuhl², Joerg Seeburger¹, Friedrich Wilhelm Mohr¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
² Department of Radiology, Heart Center Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.

Abstract

A 26-year-old female Marfan patient with extensive scoliokyphosis presented with severe mitral valve regurgitation. The patient was treated with minimally invasive mitral valve repair via a right lateral minithoracotomy. In this report, we discuss the operative procedure followed in this special case and the current literature.

Keywords: minimally invasive mitral valve repair; minithoracotomy; mitral valve regurgitation; scoliokyphosis.