Alfieri Stitch in Minithoracotomy Repair of Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation: Potential Role and Outcomes
The Alfieri stitch can be applied via right minithoracotomy to repair a wide variety of degenerative mitral pathology with minimally higher mitral gradient and a late trend toward increased mitral reoperation at 10 years.
Authors
- Donald D. Glower (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4379-6518)
- Jeffrey G. Gaca
- Brittany A. Zwischenberger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0675-0983)
- Keith Carr
- Andrew Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8729-0933)
Institutions
- Duke Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Innovations Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
- Published
- 2025-03-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/15569845251325260
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00