Mitral Valve
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Chris Malaisrie, a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at Northwestern University and an Attending Cardiac Surgeon at Northwestern Medicine,...
The authors present a 75-year-old woman with dyspnea on exertion. She was diagnosed with an aortic valve stenosis and moderate-to-severe mitral valve regurgitation due to a localized A2 prolapse. This...
This cardiac session features leading surgeon Mario Castillo-Sang presenting on intraoperative pearls and pitfalls at the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2026. CTSNet Senior Editor—Cardiac...
The transition toward minimally invasive cardiac surgery is no longer solely about reducing incision size; it is about creating a standardized, versatile, and sustainable concept. The direct-view transaxillary approach represents...
This educational video reviews the anatomy of the aorto-mitral junction and demonstrates how the aorto-mitral angle influences mitral valve geometry, surgical exposure, and repair strategy. Using a custom valve model...
This video demonstrates the case of a 48-year-old man who had a Mitral valve repair in 2014 and then presented again six years later with mitral regurgitation. After discussion, the...
This video demonstrates the case of an 84-year-old woman who had previously undergone aortic valve replacement and CABG x 3, and who then developed severe mitral valve regurgitation. All the...
This is a case of an 82-year-old woman who initially underwent a mitral valve repair followed by a biological mitral valve replacement. However, she later presented with mitral regurgitation, and...
This interview features the winner of the 2024 CTSNet Innovation Video Competition. Watch the winning video and all other competition entries. CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Jessica Hungate...
This video shows Dr. Vince Gaudiani demonstrating how the MitraClips had failed in an 88-year-old patient prior to removing them and performing a mitral valve replacement via a hemisternotomy. The...
The patient was a 68-year-old man who initially presented with symptoms of asthma, but it was later determined to be shortness of breath due to rheumatic mitral valve disease. Dr....
A 29-year-old female patient with symptomatic rheumatic heart disease was confirmed to have severe mitral regurgitation and mild to moderate tricuspid regurgitation on echocardiographic examination. The diseased mitral valve leaflets...
This much-watch discussion is the ultimate video in Vince Gaudiani’s mitral valve repair series. In this video, cardiac surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Vince Gaudiani and Dr. Leonard Lee, Professor...









