Mitral Valve Repair
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 degenerative disease and severely impaired...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This session features leading surgeons and cardiologists discussing various aspects of assessing and planning mitral valve interventions at the Transcatheter Heart Valves Greece (THVGreece) 2026 conference. Moderators Lampros K. Michalis,...
In this session, cardiothoracic surgery experts gathered to discuss AFib ablation, AF surgery strategies, and the importance of ERAS protocols. These presentations were recorded during the Ancona Minimally Invasive and...
Partial endocardial cushion defects, presenting as an ostium primum atrial septal defect associated with a cleft in the anterior mitral valve leaflet, traditionally requires a conventional median sternotomy. While sternotomy...
At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, leading surgeons presented on minimally invasive cardiac surgery. Dr. Ranjit Deshpande, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at King’s...
This video demonstrates a simplified ring-only mitral valve repair technique for patients with symmetrical bileaflet mitral valve prolapse, annular dilatation, and centrally directed multiple jets of mitral regurgitation. The technique...
At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet JANS Editor Dr. Mateo Marin-Cuartas, a cardiac surgeon at Leipzig Heart Center, Germany, spoke with Dr. Michael Borger,...
This study analyzed the long-term outcomes in 959 patients with pre-existing atrial fibrillation (AF) who underwent mitral valve repair. Preexisting AF in degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR) marks advanced atrial disease...
This study evaluated the outcomes of mitral valve re-repair vs replacement after failed primary mitral regurgitation repair. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) database was queried, and 1,749 reoperations after...





