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According to demographic changes in the industrialized world, the average age of patients referred to cardiac surgery is increasing. These patients typically display numerous comorbidities, associated with increased perioperative risk. Therefore, the indication for a catheter-based therapy is progressively extended, including interventions on the mitral valve (MV). In this context, we evaluated a contemporary series of octogenarians undergoing minimally invasive MV surgery at our institution using right lateral minithoracotomy to elucidate the preoperative risk profile and the postoperative course in this particular cohort.

Single-centre experience of mitral valve surgery via right lateral mini-thoracotomy in octogenarians