Open Access‘CLAS’ score: an objective tool to standardize and predict mitral valve repairability
Author(s) -
Amber Malhotra,
Sumbul Siddiqui,
Vivek Wadhawa,
Himani Pandya,
Kartik Patel,
Komal Shah,
Hemang Gandhi,
Pankaj Garg,
Sudhir Adalti,
Kamal Sharma
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery/indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 0973-7723
pISSN - 0970-9134
DOI - 10.1007/s12055-018-0721-4
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiac surgery , mitral valve repair , infective endocarditis , surgery , mitral valve , cardiothoracic surgery , cardiology , endocarditis , mitral regurgitation , mitral annulus , vascular surgery , blood pressure , diastole
Carpentier's classification has been used to classify both stenotic and regurgitant lesions. However, given the extreme variability of lesions, a universal nomenclature suggestive of the complexity and the prognosis of the repair procedure for the entire spectrum of the mitral valve disease still remains elusive. We present the predictors of mitral valve repairability with the help of a four-level-based 'CLAS' scoring system.