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Right Anterolateral Minithoracotomy Versus Median Sternotomy In Atrial Septal Defects Closure ., Ahmed Mohammed, Zakaria El Mashtoly, Bahaa El Khonezy, Ismail El Sokkary

Al-Azhar International Medical Journal

Background:Over the years, surgeons have used a midline sternotomy to repair atrial septal defects (ASD) with good long-term outcomes but unsatisfactory cosmosis.Because of this, less intrusive surgical procedures are employed to lessen surgical trauma and improve the final cosmetic outcome. Objective: to assess ASDs repair using right-anterolateral minithoracotomy (RALT) versus median sternotomy in terms of surgical outcomes. Patients and methods: Our study was prospective, comparative, non randomized ,non blinded study that carried out at our institution between June 2016 and October 2018. It included forty surgical candidates who had isolated ostium secondum ASDs; patients were allocated to either group I …