VALVE DISEASE: Timing of aortic valve surgery

Timing of aortic valve surgery.

Timing and Indications for Aortic Valve Surgery in Korean Bicuspid Aortic Valve Patients

https://e-kcj.org A bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common congenital heart valve disease and is more common in males.1) BAV patients demonstrate various clinical courses, including a normally functioning BAV, asymptomatic aortic valve dysfunction and severe aortic valve dysfunction that requires surgery.1) 2) Occasionally, infective endocarditis might be the first clinical manifestatio...

Reconstructive surgery for aortic valve disease.

CECORP-Centro Especializado do Coração e Pulmão de Ribeirão Preto, Hospital do Coração de Ribeirão Preto/Fundação Waldemar B. Pessoa, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto-USP e Faculdade de Medicina da UNAERP Mailing adress: Paulo J. F. Ribeiro Rua Quintino Bocaiúva, 171 14015-160 Ribeirão Preto, SP Paulo José F. Ribeiro, Paulo Roberto B. Évora, Walter V. A. Vicente, Antonio Carlos Menardi

Aortic Valve Surgery

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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...