TY - JOUR AU - Shuhaiber, Jeffrey AU - Nores, Marcos PY - 2020 TI - New approaches for mitral valve surgery without opening the left atrium JF - Journal of Thoracic Disease; Vol 12, No 3 (March 23, 2020): Journal of Thoracic Disease Y2 - 2020 KW - N2 - From the turn of this century and beginnings of treating the mitral valve prior to the era of the heart-lung machine, surgeon pioneers such as Drs. Cuttler, Souttar and Brock were relieving mitral valve stenosis using finger or a dilator inserted in the left atrial appendage and the left ventricular apex (1,2). UR - https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/35048