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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007;133:1119-1120
© 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Endoscopic Robotic Mitral Valve Surgery

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Saint Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta, Atlanta, Ga

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To the Editor:

We appreciate Dr Chitwood’s insightful editorial¹ concerning our report on endoscopic robotic mitral valve surgery.² We disagree, however, with his opinion concerning the capability of the patient-side assistant in robotic mitral valve surgery. Chitwood states the "ideal robotic mitral" should be performed completely robotically from the operative console because "a port incision less than 4 cm does not facilitate extracorporeal knot tying or other cardiac manipulations." In our clinical experience we have not found this observation to be true. As we reported, the patient-side assistant . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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