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- Title
Edge-to-edge mitral valve repair for anterior leaflet prolapse associated with extensive calcification of the mitral annulus: Report of a case.
- Authors
ABE, TOMONOBU; ITO, TOSHIAKI; SUNADA, MASATOSHI; YOSHIZUMI, TOMO; KAWAMURA, AKEMI; YAMANA, KOJI
- Abstract
Extensive mitral annular calcification remains a technical challenge in mitral valve surgery. Decalcification and reconstruction of the mitral annulus is an established technique, but it is time consuming and technically demanding. This report presents the case of an 88-year-old diabetic female patient in whom edge-to-edge repair was completed quickly, with good early results thus being obtained.
- Subjects
MITRAL valve surgery; CALCIFICATION; PEOPLE with diabetes; MITRAL valve diseases; HEART valve surgery
- Publication
Surgery Today, 2010, Vol 40, Issue 3, p251
- ISSN
0941-1291
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00595-009-4041-6