Oxygen Concentration during Reperfusion in Mitral Valve Surgery

Rethinking Mitral Valve Surgery during the Golden Years Running title: Rao et al.; Mitral valve surgery during the golden years

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Mitral Valve Surgery in Women

Sex differences in outcomes have been noted in many areas of cardiovascular medicine. In mitral valve surgery, this topic is particularly important because in appropriately selected patients, mitral valve repair restores normal life expectancy, which cannot be said for other cardiac surgical operations. Current literature is replete with evidence supporting continued sex inequality in the detec...

Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery.

Ann Cardiothorac Surg 2013;2(6):857 www.annalscts.com Background The mitral valve controls the direction and flow of blood through the left chambers of the heart. If the valve becomes too hard (calcified) and too narrow (stenosis), flow will be reduced; if the valve becomes too loose, flow might travel backwards (regurgitation). Abnormal blood flow will force the heart to work harder, eventuall...

Intraoperative Three-Dimensional Echocardiography During Mitral Valve Surgery

Timing of mitral valve surgery.

Mitral valve surgery has changed considerably in the past decades and is now indicated mostly for pure or predominant mitral regurgitation. This is the result of the regression of rheumatic disease, of the efficacy of mitral balloon valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis, and of the aging of the population with increasing degenerative or ischaemic disease causing mitral regurgitation. Mitral regurgi...