[A case report of mitral valve replacement using a parasternal incision (minimally invasive cardiac surgery) with pleuritis tuberculosa and after esophagus operation].

A 68-year-old man underwent mitral valve replacement because of mitral regurgitation (prolaps of anterior mitral leaflet) using parasternal incision (Delos M. Cosgrove, minimally invasive surgery). He had been treated as pulmonary tuberculosis previously and had undergone esophagus operation using stomach role reconstruction beneath the sternum four years before the mitral valve procedure. We could not select median-sternotomy as an approach due to stomach role beneath the sternum, nor left posterolateral thoracotomy because of the heavy left-side pleural adhesion. Cardio-pulmonary bypass cannulations were performed through the same incision, because severe atherosclerosis was found at the distal arteries of the abdominal aorta.