Incidence and pathophysiology of atrioventricular block following mitral valve replacement and ring annuloplasty

Transvenous mitral valve replacement after failure of surgical ring annuloplasty.

To the Editor: Mitral valve repair is the preferred treatment for itral regurgitation (MR). However, failure or recurrence of MR ight occur. Re-operation might carry a high risk in patients with omorbidities. A few reports have suggested the feasibility of ranscatheter mitral valve replacement after failure of surgical ring nnuloplasty (1–4). We report here the first series of transvenous itral...

Mitral annuloplasty vs valve replacement for mitral insufficiency.

evidence of reduced venous return and alternating end-diastolic fiber length as causative factors. To the Editor: Attie et al.' reported their experience with valve replacement in children with mitral insufficiency. They divided their patients in three groups, depending on the type of prosthesis: mechanical valves, porcine xenografts and dura mater valves. Follow up times were 6.3, 3.3 and 1.9 ...

Cardiac silhouette following a mitral valve replacement, tricuspid annuloplasty and atrioplasty of both atria.

Systematic evaluation of the flexible and rigid annuloplasty ring after mitral valve repair for mitral regurgitation.

OBJECTIVES Mitral annulus reconstruction is now a common surgical procedure for the treatment of mitral regurgitation. However, there are still controversies in the selection of materials for annuloplasty in the clinical controlled studies available. The purpose of the present systematic review of the literature is to address whether a flexible ring is superior to a rigid ring in terms of impro...

Combined mitral and tricuspid valve repair in rheumatic valve disease: fewer reoperations with prosthetic ring annuloplasty.

BACKGROUND We examined predictors of early and very long-term outcome after combined mitral and tricuspid valve repair for rheumatic disease. METHODS AND RESULTS Between 1974 and 2002, 153 consecutive patients (mean age, 46.0+/-13.2 years) underwent combined mitral and tricuspid valve repair for rheumatic disease. Mitral disease was predominantly stenosis (82.3%); 100% of patients had organic...