A mitral valve replacement isn’t the only option for treating mitral valve disease. In fact, other options are often preferred because they are less invasive and can preserve your original heart ...

Most patients who have mitral valve leaks are candidates for mitral valve repair or replacement surgery. The options are: Full sternotomy — The surgeon will make an eight- to 10-inch incision down the ...

A damaged mitral valve often can be repaired, and it’s common for mitral valve repair to be performed using a minimally invasive approach, rather than with a sternotomy incision.

Surgeons can use mitral valve repair surgery to treat mitral valve disease. A 2022 article commenting on older research notes that up to 2–3% of people in the United States have degenerative ...

A damaged mitral valve often can be repaired, and it’s common for mitral valve repair to be performed using a minimally invasive approach, rather than with a sternotomy incision.

What researchers did observe by year's end, in terms of clinical events in the 67 patients with symptomatic ...

The minimally invasive mitral valve repair takes, on average, just over 2½ hours to complete. The heart is stopped during the operation for just over an hour, a relatively short time for complex ...

Mitral valve repair provides superior preservation of ventricular function, decreased risk of thromboembolism and improved survival relative to valve replacement in the management of structural ...

Less than 5% of patients who require reintervention for a failed MitraClip procedure were able to be treated successfully with surgical mitral repair, requiring valve replacement instead.

Superiority of mitral valve repair was seen across all subgroups analyzed. “These data support current recommendations and substantiate the contention that, when feasible, MV repair should be the ...

When surgery is needed to correct residual or recurrent mitral regurgitation (MR) after transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER), chances are that the patient will need to have the valve replaced ...

Aortic-valve disease severe enough to require definitive surgical treatment at the time of mitral-valve replacement was present in 1 patient with mitral regurgitation in whom both the mitral and ...