(ANSA) – TURIN, 25 JUL – Business trip to Tokyo in recent days for Stefano Salizzoni and Alessandro Vairo, respectively cardiac surgeon and cardiologist of the Molinette hospital of the City of Health of Turin. The trip aimed to teach a brand new micro-invasive repair technique of the beating heart mitral valve, with the placement of artificial cords in four hospitals in the Japanese capital: Juntendo University, St.
Luke’s Hospital, Tokyo University School of Medicine and New Heart Watanabe Institute. Thanks to the teachings and supervision of the two Turin doctors, Ryuta Seguchi, a member of the team of Professor Go Watanabe, has been certified as the first independent operator in Japan.
This beating heart technique, imported into Italy from the United States by Stefano Salizzoni, allows you to perform, by means of a 5-6 cm incision in the left chest, the same repair operation that is traditionally performed with an “open heart” and with the support of extracorporeal circulation. In short, this technique has the great advantage of reconstructing the normal anatomy of the mitral valve without stopping the heart. Patients who can be operated with this technique must have mitral insufficiency due to posterior flap prolapse, a disease affecting about 2% of the population.
At Molinette about 250 cases a year of operations on the mitral valve are performed and about 10% are performed with this type of beating heart surgery. To limit this technique, in addition to a still relatively short follow-up (about 5 years, compared to more than 40 years of experience in traditional surgery), there are also the high costs due to the use of new technologies. For this reason, patients are currently selected based on their risk profile. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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