Repair of the mitral or aortic valve usually involves remodeling of the valve tissue to make it smaller or less redundant (valvular “plastic surgery”), and is most often reinforced with a synthetic ...
The Simplici-T ® Annuloplasty System offers a first-of-its-kind approach to mitral and tricuspid valve repair. It is the first flexible band to eliminate the need for traditional sizing ...
In patients undergoing mitral valve repair, the presence of AF may be associated with increased mortality and morbidity and this is also the case in patients in whom AF persists postoperatively.
Echocardiography carried out after percutaneous coronary intervention demonstrated a probably extracardial echo-dense structure in the area of the posterior mitral valve ring. Subsequent computed ...