Atlas of Mitral Valve Repair

This full-color atlas with accompanying video DVD provides a complete and practical "how-to" guide to planning and performing mitral valve repair surgery for mitral regurgitation. The book reviews the natural history of mitral regurgitation, the functional anatomy of the mitral valve, and the use of echocardiography in preoperative evaluation and surgical planning. Chapters describe and illustrate all techniques currently used for mitral valve repair and discuss results. A bound-in DVD presents narrated video clips of six cases that show the application of specific techniques. Each case begins with preoperative echocardiograms demonstrating the mitral valve defect and proceeds through key surgical maneuvers. The natural history of mitral regurgitation Functional anatomy of the mitral valve Pathology of mitral valve disease Assessing the functional substrate of mitral regurgitation with echocardiography Overview of mitral valve repair Annuloplasty : sutures, bands, and rings Commissurotomy Anterior leaflet repair techniques Posterior leaflet repair techniques Commissural repair techniques Other techniques Complications and assessing the quality of repair. A practical "how-to" guide to planning and performing mitral valve repair surgery for mitral regurgitation. It reviews the natural history of mitral regurgitation, the functional anatomy of the mitral valve, and the use of echocardiography in preoperative evaluation and surgical planning.