Regurgitant mitral valves can be repaired with standard open surgical techniques in the vast majority of patients. The results of mitral repair are durable and are generally accepted to be ...

You will be discharge to home or to a skilled nursing facility, depending on your level of support at home, within typically about five to seven days after surgery. Valve repair, when it is possible ...

Management of asymptomatic patients with severe mitral valve regurgitation is controversial—conservative surveillance and early mitral valve repair have ... the optimal care of this population ...

Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, The Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, 115 Heart Drive, Room 3217, Greenville, NC 27834, USA Mitral valve repair provides superior ...