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Surgical Timing for Mitral Valve Regurgitation
Author(s) -
OFILI ELIZABETH,
ODUWOLE ADEFISAYO,
LAPABULA RIGOBERT
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2000.tb01139.x
Subject(s) - medicine , mitral regurgitation , asymptomatic , cardiology , mitral valve , mitral valve repair , regurgitation (circulation) , mitral valve replacement , mitral valve annuloplasty , surgery , radiology
Advances in diagnostic and surgical techniques in the management of mitral regurgitation have resulted in improved survival rates and clinical outcomes. Echocardiography is a valuable noninvasive diagnostic tool in the determination of the timing of surgical correction of mitral regurgitation. Improved surgical techniques, the growing role of mitral valve repair, low operative mortality rates, and improved long‐term survival rates are important considerations for earlier surgical intervention in symptomatic patients and in asymptomatic patients with echocardiographic criteria of left ventricular dilatation. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography is very useful in mitral valve repair and valve replacement with preservation of chordal structures.