TY - JOUR AU - Goldstone, Andrew B. AU - Woo, Y. Joseph PY - 2016 TI - Is minimally invasive thoracoscopic surgery the new benchmark for treating mitral valve disease? JF - Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery; Vol 5, No 6 (November 25, 2016): Robotic Heart Surgery (I) Y2 - 2016 KW - N2 - The treatment of mitral valve disease remains dynamic; surgeons and patients must now choose between many different surgical options when addressing mitral regurgitation and mitral stenosis. Notably, advances in imaging and surgical instrumentation allow surgeons to perform less invasive mitral valve surgery that spares the sternum. With favorable long-term data now emerging, we compare the benefits and risks of thoracoscopic mitral valve surgery with that through conventional sternotomy or surgery that is robot-assisted. UR - https://www.annalscts.com/article/view/10362