Since 2009, positive experiences with right anterior minithoracotomy as an approach to aortic valve replacement are extensively practiced in our institution. The primary disease process for which patients are referred remains aortic stenosis. But more and more, we met older patients with both aortic stenosis and other cardiac pathology (coronary artery disease, other valvulopathy...). Even if minimally invasive valve surgery has been demonstrated to significantly improve postoperative course (reduced blood transfusion, pain, hospital lengths of stay) and to enhance postoperative recovery, when compared with a median sternotomy, it is however important to have medical data and statistics in order to better understand the factors influencing morbi-mortality and thereby to continue this improvement.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
300
Aortic valve replacement with or without associated cardiac surgery (coronary bypass, mitral valve surgery,...)
Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery Unit - Dijon University Hopital
Dijon, France
30 days mortality incidence rates
Mortality from aortic valve replacement to 30 days post-surgery
Time frame: 30 days
30 days morbidity incidence rates
Morbidity from aortic valve replacement to 30 days post-surgery (major adverse cardiac events)
Time frame: 30 days
Long-term morbimortality incidence rates
Morbimortality from aortic valve replacement up to 10 years post-surgery
Time frame: 10 years
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