The positioning of the internal thoracic artery extra-pleural and perihilar in coronary artery bypass grafting.

The positioning of the internal thoracic artery extra-pleural and perihilar in coronary artery bypass grafting to avoiding anterior adherences and prevent unnecessary damage arterial.

Mitral valve repair by Double Teflon technique: cardiac remodeling analysis by tridimensional echocardiography.

Introduction: Mitral valve repair is the treatment of choice to correct mitral insufficiency. Although the literature related to left atrial and ventricular behavior after mitral repair without use of prosthetic rings is scarce.

Objective: To analyze cardiac morphology and function using real time tridimensional echocardiography in individuals submitted to mitral valve repair with Double Teflon technique.

Mitral valve repair in rheumatic patients with mitral insuficiency: twenty years of techniques and results.

Objective: Mitral valve repair in rheumatic patients is still a challenge. The purpose of this study is to analyze the results of mitral valve repair in rheumatic patients in the Heart Institute University of Sao Paulo Medical School.

Methods: Were analyzed retrospectively, between 1985 and 2005, 330 patients submitted to mitral valve repair in the Heart Institute of São Paulo.

Mitral valve repair with "Double Teflon" technique: 10-year results.

Objective: The purpose of this paper is to present the late clinical results of mitral valve repair with the "Double Teflon" technique.

Methods: "Double Teflon" technique consists of a quadrangular resection of the posterior leaflet, annulus plication with "pledgetted" stitches over a Teflon patch, and leaflet suture. Between 1994 and 2003, 133 patients with degenerative mitral insufficiency due to ruptured or elongated chordae in the posterior leaflet underwent repair with this technique.