Mitral Valve
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 Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA, whereby...
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...
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...
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:...
In the clinical case reported herein, a 62‑year‑old female patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and systolic anterior motion syndrome, with a EuroSCORE II risk of 4.07 percent, was treated with a...
In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Rawn Salenger, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, USA, spoke with T. Sloane Guy,...
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...
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 talk features CTSNet Senior Editor—Cardiac Mario Castillo-Sang, Surgical Director of Mitral Valve and Heart Failure Therapies at St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Edgewood, Kentucky, USA, presenting on “Premeasure Neochords: How...
The authors present a case of post-myocardial infarction ventricular pseudoaneurysm repair with mitral valve replacement and coronary revascularization performed through a minimally invasive left anterior minithoracotomy via the fourth intercostal...
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...
This talk features Juan Penaranda Canal, a cardiothoracic surgeon at St. Elizabeth Healthcare, Edgewood, Kentucky, USA, presenting on “Mitral Valve Replacement: Tips, Tricks, and Innovations” at the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons...
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...











