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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 58, 884-886, Copyright © 1994 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Another approach for aortic valve replacement through left thoracotomy

H Hirose, S Umeda, Y Mori, S Murakawa, K Azuma and T Hashimoto
First Department of Surgery, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan.

We report a 54-year-old man with a history of esophagectomy and retrosternal esophagogastric anastomosis for esophageal cancer through right thoracotomy in whom cardiac failure developed due to aortic regurgitation. He underwent aortic valve replacement through a left thoracotomy with division of two great arteries and their strong traction toward the surgeon by stay sutures. He has been well for 3 years postoperatively in New York Heart Association class I.

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