Mitral Valve Repair

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ECS Club | Lifetime Achievement Award

November 6, 2026 | Walter Chitwood, Jr.

This talk features W. Randolph Chitwood, a retired cardiac surgeon and Founding Director of the East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina University, receiving the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club...

JANS Article

Mitral Annular Constraint Shapes Aortic Prosthesis Size and Early Hemodynamics in Combined Aortic and Mitral Valve Surgery

November 5, 2026 | Shrikar Modukuri

In this single-center study of 651 patients undergoing combined aortic and mitral valve surgery, mitral annular constraint from anterior annular anchoring sutures for mitral replacement or complete-ring annuloplasty was associated...

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A Measurement-Guided Approach for Degenerative Mitral Valve Repair With Folding Plasty Technique

November 3, 2026 | Daniel Romary…

Historically, mitral valve repair has been seen as an art mastered by few and guided by experience. This video demonstrates an innovative, measurement-based approach developed by Dr. McCarthy at Northwestern...

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ECS Club | When to Respect, When to Resect a Mitral Valve?

October 30, 2026 | Patrick Perier

This talk features Patrick Perier, chairman of the ECS Club and staff surgeon at the Herz und Gefäss Klinik in Bad Neustadt, Germany, presenting on “When to Respect, When to...

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Left Atrial Tumor Excision With Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Repair and Coronary Revascularization

October 28, 2026 | Dmytro BabliakBronze Contributor…

The authors present a case of left atrial tumor excision combined with mitral and tricuspid valve repair and coronary revascularization, performed through a left anterior minithoracotomy in the fourth intercostal...

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ECS Club | Mitral Valve Intervention in Asymptomatic Patients

October 23, 2026 | Maurice Sarano

This talk features Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, a senior research scientist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation’s Valve Science Center, Minnesota, USA, delivering a presentation titled “Mitral Valve Intervention in Asymptomatic Patients:...

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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 177: Expert Consensus Document on LVRS for Emphysema

October 15, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with David Waller, Chair of the EACTS Emphysema Taskforce and Director of the EACTS Fundamentals Course in Thoracic Surgery, about...

JANS Article

Surgeon vs Center Mitral Repair Volume and Repair Utilization in Primary Mitral Regurgitation

October 15, 2026 | Shrikar Modukuri

In a Michigan statewide quality collaborative analysis of 6,649 adults undergoing isolated surgery for primary mitral regurgitation, high surgeon-level mitral repair volume was independently associated with greater repair utilization (93...

JANS Article

MVr vs Replacement for Degenerative MR in Patients With Poor Ejection Fraction

October 8, 2026 | Eteesha Rao

This 20-year propensity-matched study, utilizing data from the UK National Adult Cardiac Surgery Audit, examined whether mitral valve repair (MVr) offers better early outcomes than replacement (MVR) in patients with...

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Mitral Valve Anomalies in Transposition of the Great Arteries

October 8, 2026 | EACTS StaffGold Contributor

Among 1,590 transposition of the great arteries {S, D, D} patients undergoing biventricular repair (1990–2020), 52 (3.3 percent) had abnormal mitral valves (MV)—mainly anterior clefts (88 percent) and subvalvular anomalies...

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ECS Club | The Loop Technique, Including Annular Sutures

October 7, 2026 | Joerg Kempfert

This talk features Joerg Kempfert, Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center, Berlin, Germany, presenting on “The Loop Technique: How I Do It, Including...

JANS Article

Congenital Mitral Rings: Insights From a Single-Institution Study and Review of Current Literature

October 1, 2026 | Virginia Hawkins

This is a 10-year review of 52 patients (mean age 6 years) with the rare diagnosis of a congenital mitral ring from the All India Institute of Medial Sciences. Mitral...

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ECS Club | Performing Complex Mitral Repairs Endoscopically

September 30, 2026 | Antonios Pitsis

This talk features Antonios Pitsis, Head of Cardiac Surgery at the European Interbalkan Medical Center, Thessaloniki, Greece, and Visiting Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, presenting...

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