{"id":2797,"date":"2010-09-13T14:05:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T19:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2025-05-09T12:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T17:38:26","slug":"video-mini-thoracotomy-for-minimally-invasive-mitral-valve-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/09\/13\/video-mini-thoracotomy-for-minimally-invasive-mitral-valve-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Mini-Thoracotomy For Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I remember&#8230; Once diagnosed with severe heart valve disease, many patients begin researching surgical options immediately.<\/p>\n<p>During that process, we quickly realize that different approaches for open heart surgery exist. One approach, the mini-thoracotomy, deploys a surgical technique unlike a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/sternum-broken-pain-healing.php\">median sternotomy<\/a>, robotic surgery or transcatheter procedure.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, we have discussed mini-thoracotomy for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/aortic-valve-replacement-surgery.php\">aortic valve replacement.<\/a> To learn more about minimally-invasive techniques for mitral valve repair, please watch this video with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Marc-Gerdisch-Indianapolis-Indiana.php\">Dr. Marc Gerdisch<\/a>, a leading mitral valve repair surgeon who has successfully treated over 100 patients in our community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wEhPbzxuBF0?rel=0?si=nE6Egtb7fuUuWGdS\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about mini-thoracotomy (also referred to as port access), you might want to consider the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/04\/24\/scarless-heart-surgery-women-cardiac-female-scar\/\">Scarless Heart Valve Surgery For Women by Dr. Ciuffo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/10\/31\/port-access-aortic-replacement-mitral-repair\/\">&#8220;What About Port Access For Heart Valve Replacement?&#8221; Asks Taylor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/03\/04\/mini-thoracotomy-aortic-valve-repacement\/\">Jim&#8217;s Successful Aortic Valve Replacement Via Mini-Thoracotomy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope the video and information provided above helps us all learn more about mini-thoracotomy for heart valve surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mitral-valve-repair"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40917,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/40917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}