Surgical treatment of double and triple heart valve disease through a limited single-access right minithoracotomy.

Heart valve disease can be extensive and may include double (mitral-aortic, mitral-tricuspid), or triple (mitral, aortic, and tricuspid) valvular regurgitation. The surgical correction of significant valvular regurgitation usually consists of the repair or replacement of all valves affected by a pathologic process. The median full-length sternotomy still serves as a classic approach for single, double, and triple valve operations in most patients.

Multiple recurrent periprosthetic leak after a mitral valve replacement in a 30-year-old man.

Partial detachment of intracardiac prosthesis is a common reality in cardiac surgical practice. Its identification and surgical correction can be very crucial for a patient, as well as for the surgeon. In this paper, we report a case of a 30-year-old man with partial detachment of mechanical mitral valve prosthesis.

Stentless aortic valve implantation in heavily calcified aorta.

Two male patients who underwent an aortic valve replacement are presented in this study. After assessment, an aortic valve stenosis was diagnosed in both patients, and a multislice computed tomography scan confirmed the heavily calcified aorta and severe aortic stenosis. The computed tomography scan demonstrated the huge calcium deposits and their distribution in detail.