Minimally invasive pulmonary valve replacement via left anterior mini-thoracotomy after Tetralogy of Fallot repair: a five-patient case series
Mohammad Abbasi Teshnizi, Behzad Alizadeh, Farhad Samadieh, Rashad Zayat, Shahram Lotfi · 2026
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Mohammad Abbasi Teshnizi and colleagues present a five-patient case series, published in 2026, on a less invasive heart valve operation. All five had earlier repair for Tetralogy of Fallot, a birth defect of the heart, and later developed a leaking lung valve and a swollen right heart chamber. The new operation used a small cut at the front left of the chest.
All operations used a heart-lung machine through leg vessels, kept the heart beating, and fitted stented tissue valves. Bypass time averaged 37.8 minutes, and no patient needed conversion to a full chest opening. Breathing tubes came out after a mean 9.6 hours, and hospital stay averaged 6.8 days. At two months, valves worked well and right chambers had shrunk.
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| CREATOR | Mohammad Abbasi Teshnizi, Behzad Alizadeh, Farhad Samadieh, Rashad Zayat, Shahram Lotfi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 14305 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |