Neurologic Outcome After Mitral Valve Surgery
Neurologic Outcome After Mitral Valve Surgery
Reconstructive mitral valve surgery is increasingly done by minimal- invasive anterolateral
 thoracotomy technique in contrast to surgical approach by sternotomy. The minimal invasive
 approach is favourable regarding surgical trauma, length of hospital stay and amount of blood
 loss.

 This study is to investigate the neurological outcome after minimal- invasive mitral valve
 surgery compared to open mitral valve surgery by sternotomy.

 Pre-, intra- and postsurgical data from mitral valve surgery derived from the Basel mitral
 valve registry (collected from 2009 until now) will be analyzed.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  surgery for mitral valve (reconstruction or replacement) (maybe combined with surgery
 for tricuspid valve and/ or surgery for atrial septal defects and/or patent foramen
 ovale)

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  other surgical interventions then the surgical interventions mentioned in the
 inclusion criteria

 -  pre- existing neurological deficit; neurologic limitation in daily life

 -  emergency surgery