Clinical Video 8

Operative Steps Modified Subcoronary Implantation

This piece describes a method of performing minimally invasive mitral valve repair surgery through a lower mini-sternotomy.

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Drs. Pelletier and Jacobs have given us a beautiful series of drawings illustrating the technique for these two Stage II operations for patients with a single ventricle.  It is very interesting that the results of the two different techniques, as shown in Table 1, are nearly identical.