Mitral Valve
This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. This case involves a 69-year-old man who presented with symptomatic severe mitral regurgitation. Preoperative investigations...
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...
In patients undergoing mitral valve repair, the presence of severe mitral annular calcification can present technical issues. This video reports using the ultrasonic aspirator device (CUSA® Clarity, Integra LifeSciences; SONOPET®...
The patient was a 76-year-old woman with a known history of mitral stenosis. Her symptoms included worsening fatigue, malaise, and dyspnea with exertion. Echocardiography demonstrated a mitral valve area of...
In this Giants of Cardiothoracic Surgery interview, Joel Dunning speaks with Patrick M. McCarthy, executive director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern in Chicago, Illinois. They discuss Dr McCarthy’s...
Procedure Through a partial superior periareolar skin incision, a small right anterolateral thoracotomy was performed at the 4th intercostal space and a 5 mm 0° thoracoscope was introduced through the...
This Beat episode, hosted by Joel Dunning, MD, and joined by Enoch Akowuah, MD, both of the James Cook University Hospital, UK, covers studies on mitraclip MR repair, Easy-AS, and...
Severe mitral annulus calcification (MAC) is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing mitral valve replacement. It poses a significant challenge for even the most experienced surgeons,...
Repair of the mitral valve which is partly destructed by an infective process is a big challenge in infants and small children. This is mainly because of the delicate nature...
This video demonstrates a robotically-assisted mitral valve commissuroplasty in a young patient who presented with a complex mitral regurgitant jet and unclear mechanism of the regurgitation. A 41-year-old man was...












