What makes people scare in doing surgery? Particularly surgery on disease inside human body. All what common people know about surgery is about the high risk of it. Open or cut surgery can cost bleeding, infection or even worse death.
Recent technology from University of Maryland Medical Center performs an innovative, minimally invasive medical treatment of surgery, particularly mitral valve surgery. The mitral valve, shaped like liturgical headdress worn by bishops and abbots called a miter is the “inflow valve” for the left ventricle, the heart’s main pumping chamber. Blood flows from the lungs, where it picks up oxygen, across the open mitral valve and into the left ventricle. When the heart squeezes, the two leaflets of the mitral valve snap shut and prevent blood from backing up to the lungs.
The technology here is about doing mitral valve repair surgery by using tiny instruments and a two inch video camera to perform the surgery and replace traditional heart open surgery. It works so well because this procedure reduces the amount of blood loss, eliminates the need of breastbone incision and minimize the change of infection and allows patient to resume normal activities sooner.
Not only for repairing, but this technology is also used for mitral valve replacement for those who have worse mitral valve disease.
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