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Use of Barbed Suture in Robot-Assisted Mitral Valvuloplasty

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1 Use of Barbed Suture in Robot-Assisted Mitral Valvuloplasty
Go Watanabe, MD, PhD, Norihiko Ishikawa, MD, PhD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 99, Issue 1, Pages (January 2015) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 The barbed suture of the V-Loc (Covidien, Mansfield, MA) nonabsorbable wound closure device. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 Procedures of performing running suture using the V-Loc nonabsorbable wound closure device (Covidien, Mansfield, MA). (A) After repair of the posterior leaflet, suturing is started from the left trigone. (B) The annulus of the posterior leaflet is sutured. (C) Suturing is restarted from the right trigone. (D) The sutures are tightened. The procedure is completed. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions


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