Instructions
- Understand minimally invasive surgeries (MIS) and conventional surgeries involved in degenerative mitral diseases by referring to the following:
- A meta-analysis of minimally invasive versus conventional mitral valve repair for patients with degenerative mitral disease by Christopher Cao and the 29 references used for that article.
- Minimally Invasive Surgical Mitral Valve Repair: State of the Art Review
Those can be found in this google drive link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1beCUWMH3r0q7UYXSv_zrr2sqbOZ1mL0S
- Write an introduction (around 1000 – 1200 words) of minimally invasive versus conventional surgeries for degenerative mitral valve diseases consisting of the following contents:
- History of minimally invasive surgeries and conventional surgeries for degenerative mitral valve diseases (200 – 250 words)
- Draw timeline to illustrate the history.
- Refer to background reference word document for some information on history if necessary.
- Degenerative mitral valve diseases (200 – 250 words)
- Images on: healthy mitral valve VS degenerative mitral valves comparison
- Minimally invasive surgeries (MIS) for degenerative mitral valve diseases (400 words)
- Types of MIS for degenerative mitral valve diseases
- Place some emphasize on femoral-femoral bypass – as I am conducting this MIS on my patients.
- 2 images of MIS degenerative mitral valve diseases e.g. image of ministernotomy
- Conventional surgeries for degenerative mitral valve diseases (300 words)
- Types of conventional surgeries for degenerative mitral valve diseases.
- 2 images of conventional surgeries for degenerative mitral valve diseases e.g. image of sternotomy.
- Present data on:
- Prevalence of MIS and conventional surgery for mitral valve disease.
- Proportion of both MIS and conventional surgery for mitral valve disease at the moment.
- Relevance of MIS and conventional surgeries.
- References – 30 references (*can consider references in google drive link above, but it is recommended to use other references that are newer and better as some references in google drive link are old i.e. in 1990s), preferably year 2000 – 2019, Harvard referencing.
