Edge-to-edge mitral valve repair for anterior leaflet prolapse associated with extensive calcification of the mitral annulus: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 251-253

  Abe, Tomonobu ^a   Ito, Toshiaki ^b   Sunada, Masatoshi ^b   Yoshizumi, Tomo ^b   Kawamura, Akemi ^b   Yamana, Koji ^b  

^a CHUKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS NAGOYA FIRST HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcification; Mitral valve repair

Indexed keywords

POLYPROPYLENE;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETIC PATIENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDGE TO EDGE MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MITRAL ANNULUS CALCIFICATION; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; OPERATION DURATION; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; CALCINOSIS; MITRAL VALVE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE;

EID: 77952316565     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-009-4041-6     Document Type: Article

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