Mitral Valve
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jeffrey Velotta, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in San Francisco, California, USA, and a...
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 video demonstrates a myectomy for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a 70-year-old woman with a 100-mmHg gradient in her LVOT. The right femoral vein was cannulated, followed by the aorta, then...
In this video, Dr Vince Gaudiani demonstrates a Cox maze III procedure and how to perform a complex repair of a calcified posterior leaflet. He began by performing a full...
In this video, Dr. Vince Gaudiani demonstrates how to perform a complex repair of a calcified posterior leaflet. He first cannulated the femoral vein, then performed an upper ministernotomy before...
Dr. Vince Gaudiani demonstrates how to perform a complex repair of a mitral valve with a heavily calcified posterior leaflet. He began by cannulating the femoral vein and then performed...
This video shows an 80-year-old patient who had severe mitral and tricuspid regurgitation with pulmonary hypertension and, intraoperatively, was found to have a sinus venosus defect. Dr. Vince Gaudiani found...
This patient in this video was a 55-year-old female who underwent a mitral valve repair for prolapse and had an anomalous right coronary artery as well. Dr. Vince Gaudiani begins...
This video shows a 55-year-old patient who underwent an open pulmonary valvotomy in 1967. He presented with a 10cm right atrium, free pulmonary regurgitation, tricuspid regurgitation, and mitral regurgitation. First,...
This video demonstrates a patient who experienced a failed attempt at MitraClip placement on the tricuspid valve. This led to severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR), heart failure, and a dilated mitral...












