A clinical study of thoracoscopy-assisted mitral valve replacement concomitant with tricuspid valvuloplasty, with domestically manufactured pipeline products for cardiopulmonary bypass
Authors: Hua Cao*, Qiang Chen, Qian-Zhen Li, Liang-Wan Chen, Gui-Can Zhang, Dao-Zhong Chen,Zhi-Huang Qiu, Yun-Nan Hu and Jia-Jun He
Abstract
Objective
To discuss the feasibility and experience of treating valvular heart diseases with thoracoscopy-assisted mitral valve replacement concomitant with tricuspid valvuloplasty, with domestically manufactured pipeline products for cardiopulmonary bypass.
Methods
A total of 135 patients with valvular heart disease were admitted to our hospital between January 2011 and January 2013. They received thoracoscopy-assisted mitral valve replacement concomitant with tricuspid valvuloplasty, with domestically manufactured pipeline products. A cardiopulmonary bypass with domestically-manufactured pipeline products was established during the surgery. The procedure was accomplished with the assistance of thoracoscopy through a small incision in the right chest wall.
Results
All 135 patients underwent a successful surgery, and were followed up for the duration of half a year to two years. None of them displayed any evidence of complications. Our procedure had the advantage of fewer complications and a significantly shortened time period for the patient care and hospitalization. As opposed to imported pipeline products for cardiopulmonary bypass, our procedure had the advantage of similar clinical results at a lower cost.
Conclusions
Thoracoscopy-assisted mitral valve replacement concomitant with tricuspid valvuloplasty was proved to be a safe and effective method for cardiopulmonary bypass, with the use of domestically manufactured pipeline products.
Citation: Hua Cao*, Qiang Chen, Qian-Zhen Li, Liang-Wan Chen, Gui-Can Zhang, et al. A clinical study of thoracoscopy-assisted mitral valve replacement concomitant with tricuspid valvuloplasty, with domestically manufactured pipeline products for cardiopulmonary bypass. doi:10.1186/s13019-014-0160-2
Corresponding Author: Hua Cao, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Fujian Medical University, P. R. China
Received: 21 June, 2014;Accepted: 23 September, 2014;Published: 2 October, 2014.
Copyright: © 2014 Cao et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors’ contributions: HC designed the study, collected the clinical data and performed the statistical analysis, participated in the operation and drafted the manuscript. QC, G-CZ and Q-ZL participated in the operation and revised the paper. L-WC and D-ZC designed and supervised the study. Z-HQ, Y-NH and J-JH collected the clinical data. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Acknowledgements: This research was sponsored by Chinese national and Fujian provincial key clinical specialty construction programs. We highly acknowledge the contribution by the participating doctors: Feng Lin, Qi-Min Wang, Zhong-Yao Huang, Han-Fan Qiu, Xiao-Fu Dai, Xi-Jie Wu, Xue-Shan Huang, Dong-Shan Liao. Also, we wish to extend our gratitude to Xiu-Juan Wang and her colleagues, all anesthesiologists and perfusionist of our department.
