Mitral Valve Repair

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hetzer, Roland (Editor), Rankin, J. Scott (Editor), Yankah, Charles A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Steinkopff, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Cardiac surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cardiac Surgery.

Surgical options for the treatment of degenerative, ischemic, inflammatory, and functional mitral valve diseases have expanded greatly in recent decades. Still, a dilemma exists with employing prosthetic mitral valves – in that mechanical valves exhibit good durability but require anticoagulation ve...