TY - BOOK AU - Akmal Mohamed Badr Eldin AU - Mahmoud Ahmed Elbatawi , AU - Maraus Torka , AU - Saied Abdelaziz Badr, TI - Minimally invasive versus conventional mitral valve plasty : : Different Apptoaches and Techniques / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Akmal Mohamed Badr Eldin , KW - Minimally invasive KW - Mitral valve KW - Versus conventional N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery; Issued also as CD N2 - Aim of work and methods : in this study we reviewed a total of 200 patients who underwent elective mitral valve plasty with cardio- pulmonary bypass (CPB) at the Herzzentrum - University of Leipzig , Leipzig , Germany and Zentralklink - Bad Berka, Bad Berka , Germany between January 2005 and August 2006. Preoperative patients`characteristics intraopeative variables and postoperative outcomes were retrospectively collected from a cardiac surgery database ER -