Vol 15, No 5 (September 30, 2026): Transaxillary Direct View Valve Surgery

Keynote Lecture Series

Transaxillary valve surgery: innovation through simplicity in minimally invasive cardiac surgery

Marco Di Eusanio

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Featured Articles

Transaxillary minimally invasive mitral valve surgery: early and mid-term outcomes in 763 patients

Pietro Giorgio Malvindi, Francesca Spagnolo, Sara Pierdicca, Olimpia Bifulco, Jacopo Alfonsi, Mariano Cefarelli, Filippo Capestro, Alessandro D’Alfonso, Carlo Zingaro, Paolo Berretta, Marco Di Eusanio

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Surgery that looks like transcatheter aortic valve implantation: the transaxillary concept for minimally invasive aortic valve replacement in 1,848 consecutive patients

Sebastian Arzt, Konstantin Alexiou, Ali Taghizadeh-Waghefi, Asen Petrov, Klaus Matschke, Utz Kappert, Manuel Wilbring

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Transaxillary access for ascending aortic and root surgery: a single-center comparison with full and partial sternotomy

Daniel-Sebastian Dohle, Philipp Pfeiffer, Christian Keller, Edoardo Zancanaro, Ahmed Ghazy, Franz Masseli, Chris Probst, Hendrik Treede

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Editorial

The transaxillary approach and enhanced recovery after surgery: the perfect wedding

Christopher Maria Münch

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Transaxillary valve surgery in Dresden: a 99% concept

Ali Taghizadeh-Waghefi, Sebastian Arzt, Konstantin Alexiou, Klaus Matschke, Manuel Wilbring, Utz Kappert

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Building a transaxillary program in South America: lessons beyond the learning curve

Gustavo A. Orellana-Sampedro, David Maldonado, Edgar Francisco Montalvo, Luis Roberto Palma Dallan

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Art of Operative Techniques

Transaxillary direct-vision valve surgery: operative technique and technical principles

Marco Di Eusanio

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Masters of Cardiothoracic Surgery

CT based planning for transaxillary valve surgery

Michele Galeazzi, Erlil Mali, Paolo Berretta, Carlo Zingaro, Filippo Capestro, Marco Di Eusanio

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Transaxillary aortic valve replacement with a sutured valve

Gianluca Lucchese, Rajdeep Bilkhu, Jacopo Gardellini

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Transaxillary aortic valve replacement with a sutureless valve

Ali Taghizadeh-Waghefi, Sebastian Arzt, Konstantin Alexiou, Klaus Matschke, Manuel Wilbring, Utz Kappert

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Transaxillary direct view mitral and tricuspid valve repair

Marco Di Eusanio, Michele Galeazzi, Jacopo Alfonsi, Mariano Cefarelli, Erlil Mali, Pietro Giorgio Malvindi

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Transaxillary triple valve surgery and left atrium appendage occlusion

Erlil Mali, Michele Galeazzi, Carlo Zingaro, Alessandro D’Alfonso, Pietro Giorgio Malvindi, Marco Di Eusanio

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Combined transfemoral TAVI and direct-vision valve-in-MAC through the transaxillary approach

Michele Galeazzi, Erlil Mali, Olimpia Bifulco, Beatrice Buratto, Filippo Capestro, Marco Di Eusanio

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Tips and tricks in transaxillary aortic root surgery: the Bentall procedure

Daniel-Sebastian Dohle, Husain Jaber, Philipp Pfeiffer, Edoardo Zancanaro, Ahmed Ghazy, Hendrik Treede

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Letter to the Editor

Testing errors in measuring the effective orifice diameter as a new sizing parameter of surgical valve prostheses

Astrid Gerritje Maria van Boxtel, Tjark Ebels

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Response to van Boxtel et al., ‘Testing errors in measuring the effective orifice diameter as a new sizing parameter of surgical valve prostheses’

Changfu Wu, Chad Green, Salvador Marquez, Paolo Monelli, Craig Weinberg, Matthew Weston, Duke Cameron, Ajit Yoganathan, Ulrich Steinseifer

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Guest Editor:
Marco Di Eusanio,
Ancona, Italy