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Minimal Access Tricuspid Valve Surgery. J Cardiovasc Dev Dis 2023; 10:jcdd10030118. [PMID: 36975882 PMCID: PMC10051570 DOI: 10.3390/jcdd10030118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2023] [Revised: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 03/16/2023] Open
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Tricuspid valve diseases are a heterogeneous group of pathologies that typically have poor prognoses when treated medically and are associated with significant morbidity and mortality with traditional surgical techniques. Minimal access tricuspid valve surgery may mitigate some of the surgical risks associated with the standard sternotomy approach by limiting pain, reducing blood loss, lowering the risk of wound infections, and shortening hospital stays. In certain patient populations, this may allow for a prompt intervention that could limit the pathologic effects of these diseases. Herein, we review the literature on minimal access tricuspid valve surgery focusing on perioperative planning, technique, and outcomes of minimal access endoscopic and robotic surgery for isolated tricuspid valve disease.
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Tricuspid valve disease carries a very unfavorable prognosis when medically treated. Despite that, surgical intervention is still underperformed for tricuspid valve disease due to the reported high morbidity and mortality from a sternotomy approach. This had led to a shift towards maximizing medical therapy for right ventricular failure and, as a result, a more significant delay in surgical referrals with surgical risks when patients are finally referred. Tricuspid valve patients usually have other co-morbidities resulting from their systemic venous congestion and low flow cardiac output. Minimally invasive tricuspid valve surgery provides less tissue injury and, as a result, less trauma during surgery. This provides a hope for both patients and treating doctors to be more open for providing this procedure with less complications. Isolated minimally invasive tricuspid valve surgery is still not performed as widely as expected. This can be partly due to the adverse outcomes historically labelled to tricuspid valve surgery or by the long journey of learning the surgical team would need to commit to with a minimal access approach. In this article we will review the perioperative pathway, and outcomes of isolated minimally invasive tricuspid valve surgery in the available English literature.
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- Abdelrahman Abdelbar
- Department of Cardiothoracic surgery, Lancashire Heart Centre, Blackpool Teaching Hospital, Blackpool, UK
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- Department of Cardiothoracic surgery, Lancashire Heart Centre, Blackpool Teaching Hospital, Blackpool, UK
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- Department of Cardiothoracic surgery, Lancashire Heart Centre, Blackpool Teaching Hospital, Blackpool, UK
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He BC, Ke YJ, Zhou K, Chen ZR, Yang J, Li XH, Liu GQ, Guo HM, Chen JM, Zhuang J, Huang HL. Modified unicaval drainage in reoperative isolated tricuspid valve repair via totally thoracoscopic approach. Perfusion 2020; 35:649-657. [PMID: 32403987 DOI: 10.1177/0267659120915659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility, safety, and clinical effect of modified unicaval drainage for thoracoscopic reoperative isolated tricuspid valve repair, compared with conventional bicaval drainage. Methods: A total of 45 consecutive cases of patients who underwent thoracoscopic reoperative isolated tricuspid valve repair on beating-heart were enrolled and divided into two groups according to the different venous drainage (Group A: modified unicaval drainage, Group B: conventional bicaval drainage). A retrospective analysis of perioperative data and clinical outcomes were performed and all the surviving cases were followed up. Re-evaluation of echocardiography and electrocardiogram was performed prior to discharge, and at first month, sixth month, and every year follow-up. Results: The overall postoperative 30-day mortality was 4.5% in Group A and 8.7% in Group B. The postoperative tricuspid valve regurgitation grade of both groups decreased significantly from preoperative regurgitation grade, p < 0.001, without intergroup significant difference, p = 0.815. Follow-up duration ranged from 6 to 38 months, there was one death at 24 months in Group A, and another at 9 months in Group B, respectively. Nobody from both groups experienced reintervention for residual tricuspid regurgitation. No significant difference could be identified about the incidence of postoperative morbidities and follow-up adverse events. Conclusion: Both strategies of caval venous drainage can provide satisfactory exposure for thoracoscopic reoperative isolated tricuspid valve repair and equivalent favorable postoperative outcome. And the modified unicaval drainage group may even preserve the anesthetic time and decrease the risk of iatrogenic jugular injury, achieving a more simplified procedure with better cosmetic outcome.
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- Biao-Chuan He
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of South China Structural Heart Disease, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, P.R. China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital’s Nanhai Hospital, The Second People’s Hospital of Nanhai District, Foshan, P.R. China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of South China Structural Heart Disease, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, P.R. China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of South China Structural Heart Disease, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, P.R. China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of South China Structural Heart Disease, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, P.R. China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of South China Structural Heart Disease, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, P.R. China
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- Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of South China Structural Heart Disease, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, P.R. China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of South China Structural Heart Disease, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, P.R. China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of South China Structural Heart Disease, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, P.R. China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of South China Structural Heart Disease, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, P.R. China
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Abdelbar A, Niranjan G, Tynnson C, Saravanan P, Knowles A, Laskawski G, Zacharias J. Endoscopic Tricuspid Valve Surgery is a Safe and Effective Option. INNOVATIONS-TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES IN CARDIOTHORACIC AND VASCULAR SURGERY 2020; 15:66-73. [PMID: 31903869 DOI: 10.1177/1556984519887946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Isolated tricuspid surgery through median sternotomy can be associated with a high morbidity and mortality. Reports of minimally invasive isolated tricuspid valve operations are rare, but the outcomes are encouraging. We present our experience of endoscopic isolated tricuspid valve surgery. METHODS In our institution, 452 patients underwent endoscopic minimal access cardiac surgery between August 2008 and December 2018. A total of 90 patients underwent tricuspid valve surgery whether isolated or with other cardiac procedure. We further selected patients who had isolated tricuspid valve surgery (n = 24). Of these patients, 13 (54%) had more than one previous sternotomy. RESULTS Tricuspid repair was performed in 18 patients (75%) with the remaining 6 (25%) having bioprosthetic tricuspid replacement. Three (12.5%) were performed with a beating heart, the remaining with endoaortic clamping and cardioplegia. There were no conversions to sternotomy. None of the patients had reoperation for bleeding, tamponade, or valve issues. Three patients (12.5%) required blood transfusion, 3 patients (12.5%) required renal dialysis, and 7 patients (29%) had respiratory complications such as chest infection, requiring continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) with 2 being re-intubated. One patient (4.1%) died within 30 days from chest sepsis leading to multi-organ failure. Mean hospital stay was 11.1 ± 8.9 days (median of 8). All patients had mild or less regurgitation on follow-up echo at 6 months. CONCLUSIONS Isolated tricuspid valve surgery can be performed through an endoscopic minimally access approach, with good results. It appears to provide better results than a sternotomy approach. A high repair rate can be achieved, and the procedure is particularly valuable in redo-surgery with low mortality and morbidity compared to historical sternotomy case series.
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- Abdelrahman Abdelbar
- 171993 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lancashire Heart Centre, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Manchester, UK
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- 171993 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lancashire Heart Centre, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Manchester, UK
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- 171993 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lancashire Heart Centre, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Manchester, UK
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- 171993 Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, Lancashire Heart Centre, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Manchester, UK
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- 171993 Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, Lancashire Heart Centre, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Manchester, UK
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- 171993 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lancashire Heart Centre, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Manchester, UK.,171993 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland
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- 171993 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lancashire Heart Centre, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Manchester, UK
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