Repair of the Subarterial Type of VSD via a Left Minithoracotomy with using AESOP: A case report.
- Author:
Duk Hwan MOON
1
;
Jae Won LEE
;
Hyun Jin CHO
;
Hyoung Gon JE
;
Sung Ho JUNG
;
Suk Jung CHOO
;
Hyun SONG
;
Cheol Hyun CHUNG
Author Information
1. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Korea. jwlee@amc.seoul.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Minimally invasive surgery;
Ventricular septal defect;
Robotics
- MeSH:
Cosmetics;
Endoscopes;
Female;
Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular;
Humans;
Length of Stay;
Robotics;
Sternotomy;
Thoracic Surgery
- From:The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
2008;41(5):630-632
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery using AESOP (Automated Endoscope System for Optimal Positioning) offers certain advantages such as better a cosmetic outcome, a shortened post operative recovery time and a shorten hospital stay, and these advantages are not achieved by conventional cardiac surgery. We report here on our first robot-assisted (AESOP) left minithoracotomy surgery in a 26 year-old female with a subarteral ventricular septal defect, and this might have been treated by median sternotomy before the development of AESOP.
