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Echocardiographic Evaluation of Mitral Valve Repair by Modified “Edge to Edge” Technique
Author(s) -
Cianciulli Tomás Francisco,
Lax Jorge Alberto,
Saccheri María Cristina,
Morita Luis Alberto,
Picone Victorio Próspero,
Prezioso Horacio Alberto
Publication year - 2006
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.1540-8175.2006.00307.x
Subject(s) - mitral valve repair , medicine , mitral regurgitation , cardiology , mitral valve , mitral valve regurgitation , body orifice , surgery , anatomy
The “edge to edge” or “double‐orifice” technique is an alternative surgical option of mitral valve repair to treat mitral regurgitation. Echocardiography is very useful to evaluate the postoperative valve function, but since this technique is not frequently used, there is little experience about its echocardiographic features, which are different from those of the classic mitral valve repair. In this report, we present a patient who underwent this repair with a modified approach called “triple‐orifice technique” and was evaluated by transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography.