Alessandro Vairo, Rossella Manai, Lorenzo Gaiero, Paolo Desalvo, Matteo Bellettini, Lorenzo Zaccaro, Andrea Rinaudo, Luca Franchin, Francesco Piroli, Francesco Bruno, Viviana Sebastiano, Erik Cura Stura, Cristina Barbero, Matteo Marro, Riccardo Faletti, Gianluca Alunni, Gaetano Maria De Ferrari, Mauro Rinaldi, Stefano Salizzoni
OBJECTIVE: Transventricular beating-heart mitral valve repair (TBMVR) with artificial chordae implantation is a technique to treat mitral valve prolapse. Two-dimensional (2D) echocardiography completed with simultaneous biplane view during surgeon finger pushing on the left ventricular (LV) wall (finger test [FT]) is currently used to localize the desired LV access, on the inferior-lateral wall, between the papillary muscles (PMs). We aimed to compare a new three-dimensional (3D) method with conventional FT in terms of safety and better localization of LV access...
August 3, 2023: Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery