Even though surgeons don't typically repair valves with moderate leaks during bypass, CABG patients with leaky mitral valves fare more poorly after surgery than patients whose valves don't leak ...

According to 2008–2012 data from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, 66% of mitral-valve surgeries in patients undergoing CABG used a repair approach. 41 However, our comparison between chordal ...

as compared with CABG and mitral-valve repair. 52,53 Acute Coronary Syndromes and ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction The evidence in favor of CABG is almost entirely based on studies of ...

Nov. 13, 2003 (Orlando) — Results of a placebo-controlled trial from Canadian researchers suggests that a course of oral amiodarone prophylaxis reduces by about half atrial fibrillation (AF ...

Greenbrae, Calif.-based MarinHealth has launched a cardiothoracic surgery program at the MarinHealth Heart and Vascular Institute.  The surgeons in the program perform procedures including aortic and ...

In the field of cardiac surgery, mitral valve repair, CABG surgery, atrial septal defect repair, and myxoma resection can be achieved using robotic technology. Furthermore, vascular surgeons can ...

When left ventricular end-systolic volume index exceeds 60 ml/m 2, medical therapy, CABG surgery, and mitral repair have limited benefit. This form–function relationship can be corrected by ...

CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital — New Braunfels offers a minimally invasive heart valve procedure called transcatheter mitral ...

Capstan Medical’s robot platform has been used for the first in-human robotic assisted transcatheter mitral valve replacement ...

Surgical revision after percutaneous mitral valve repair with a clip: initial multicenter experience. Ann Thorac Surg. 2005 Dec;80(6):2338-42.

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that compared to mitral valve repair, mitral valve replacement results in a lower rate of heart failure and fewer hospitalizations ...