Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Mount Sinai Medical Center
1190 Fifth Ave., Box 1028
New York, NY 10029
Tel: 866-648-7255
Tel: 212-659-6820

Home | The Mount Sinai Hospital | Press | Contact | Español

The Mitral Valve :

• Mitral Valve Function
• Understanding Mitral Valve Anatomy
• Leaflets
• Commissures
• The Zone of Coaptation
• Mitral Annulus
• Chordae Tendinae
• Papillary Muscles and the Left Ventricle

Mitral Valve Disease

• Understanding Degenerative Disease (The Pathophysiologic Triad)
• Barlow Mitral Valve Disease
• Fibroelastic Deficiency

Making the Diagnosis

Mitral Valve Surgery:

• Mitral Valve Repair
• When to Consider Surgery
• Indications for Surgery
• Golden Rules
• Valve Analysis
• Posterior Leaflet Prolapse
• Anterior Leaflet Prolapse
• Remodeling the Annulus
• Intra-operative Assessment of Repair

Who Should Perform Your Mitral Valve Repair?

Outcomes of Mitral Valve Repair:

• Understanding Outcomes of Mitral Valve Repair
• Operative Mortality and Morbidity
• Mitral Valve Repair vs. Replacement Rates
• Long Term Survival
• Failures and Re-operations
• Quality of Life

Comparison with Alternative Treatments:

• Non-surgical Management
• Mitral Valve Replacement

Re-Operations and Re-Repairs:

• Expertise in Re-Operations
• Methods of Re-Operations

Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery Center

Frequently Asked Questions about Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery

Our Team:

• Dr. David H. Adams
• Team Spotlight
• Dr. Anelechi Anyanwu
• Dr. Joanna Chikwe
• Dr. Farzan Filsoufi
• Dr. Khanh Nguyen
• Dr. Jill Kalman - Cardiology
• Dr. David L. Reich - Anesthesiology
• Dr. Gregory W. Fischer - Anesthesiology
• Dr. Corey Scurlock - Critical Care
• Dr. Ricardo Lazala - Perfusion Services
• Intensivists
• Dr. Jeffrey I. Mechanick - Endocrinology, Nutrition, and Metabolic Support
• Dr. Stafford R. Broumand - Plastic Surgeon
• Physicians Assistants
• Magnet Award Winning Nurses
• Scheduling Coordinators

Patient Stories

What to Expect:

• Consultation
• Before Surgery
• Anesthesia
• The Operation
• Monitoring Cerebral Oxygenation During Cardiac Surgery
• After Surgery
• Discharge Instructions

A Conversation About Mitral Valve Repair:

• “Fix the source of the problem...”
• “We wanted a surgeon that does a lot of these...”
• “Somebody passionate about what they do...”
• “The best you can find...”
• “The reasonable thing to do...”
• “The best decision for us...”
• “I looked at it for myself...”
• “Doing nothing just didn't seem to be an option...”
• “I'm not ready to sit down yet...”

Frequently Asked Questions:

• Questions From Patients
• Questions to Ask Your Mitral Valve Repair Surgeon

Operating Room 25

Staying at Mount Sinai:

• Preparing for Your Visit
• Mount Sinai Services
• Accommodations
• Directions

Carpentier-Edwards Physio II:

• First Implantation
• Launch Announcement
• Indications for Use

Medtronic Tri-Ad Adams Tricuspid Ring- First Implantation

Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Annuloplasty Ring

Video Presentations:

• 2010 Heart Valve Summit - Mitral and Tricuspid Valve: Pathoanatomy
• 2010 Heart Valve Summit - Case Presentations: "I need your opinion regarding a new patient"
• 2010 Heart Valve Summit - Cardiologists Need to Improve their Decision Making and Guideline Adherence
• 2010 Heart Valve Summit - Minimally Invasive Mitral Surgery Is the New Gold Standard - Con
• 2010 Heart Valve Summit - Mitral Valve Surgical Literature: Reading Between the Lines
• 2010 Heart Valve Summit - Tricuspid Dilatation, Mild TR at Time of Mitral Repair: Ring or Not to Ring
• 2010 Heart Valve Summit - Small Root, Large Patient: Is a 19 mm Valve Reasonable?
• 2010 AATS 90th Annual Meeting - Important Anatomic and Physiologic Considerations
• theHeart.org - Aortic Stenosis: Issues in Diagnosis and Management
• 2010 STS 46th Annual Meeting - Mitral Valve Repair Strategies and Techniques for Dealing With Severe Annular Calcification
• 2010 STS 46th Annual Meeting - A Lesion Specific Approach in Rheumatic Mitral Valve Repair
• 2009 Heart Valve Summit - The Mitral and Tricuspid Valve from the OR
• 2009 Heart Valve Summit - Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation: Who Should Operate?
• 2009 Heart Valve Summit - Peri-operative Care of Patients with Mitral Valve Disease
• 2009 Heart Valve Summit - When to Use a VAD in the Patient with Valve Disease
• 2009 Heart Valve Summit - Acute Endocarditis, Embolic Stroke
• 2009 Heart Valve Summit - The Repaired Mitral Valve Leaks: Now What?
• 2009 Heart Valve Summit - Patient Prosthesis Mismatch: Fact or Fiction
• 2009 Heart Valve Summit - Rheumatic Mitral Valve Repair
• 2009 AATS 89th Annual Meeting - Degenerative Disease: Complex Mitral Valve Repair Made Simple
• 2009 STS 45th Annual Meeting - Mitral Valve Repair Techniques in Complex Barlow's Disease
• 2008 Heart Valve Summit - Reference Mitral Valve Surgery
• 2008 Heart Valve Summit - Mitral Valve Anatomy from the Operating Room
• 2008 AATS 88th Annual Meeting - Spectrum of Degenerative Disease Affecting the Mitral Valve
• 2008 AATS 88th Annual Meeting - Critically Interpreting the Mitral Valve Repair Literature
• 2008 STS 44th Annual Meeting - Leaflet Reconstruction with Glutaraldehyde-fixed Autologous Pericardium in Complex Mitral Valve Repair
• 40th Annual New York Cardiovascular Symposium - Quality Improvement in Mitral Valve Disease: Where Do We Go From Here?
• 39th Annual New York Cardiovascular Symposium - What the Cardiologist and Cardiac Surgeon should know about Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease
• 2006 AATS 86th Annual Meeting - Surgical Therapy of Ischemic MR
• 2006 STS Annual Meeting - Larger Annuloplasty Rings Facilitate Mitral Valve Repair in Barlow's Syndrome

Surgical Videos:

• Mitral Valve Repair of Commissural Prolapse
• Mitral Valve Repair of Posterior Leaflet Prolapse
• Mitral Valve Repair of Bileaflet Prolapse
• First U.S. Implant of the Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring
• Mitral Valve Repair of Fibroelastic Deficiency
• Mitral Valve Repair of Complex Barlow's Disease - Dr. Anyanwu
• Mitral Valve Repair of Complex Barlow's Disease
• Case Study - Mitral Valve Repair of Fibroelastic Deficiency

Live 3D Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)

Publications:

• Mitral Valve Articles
• Tricuspid Valve Articles
• General Cardiac
• Books

Academic Events

Vietnam Medical Mission

Reference Center Referrals

Other Resources

General Disclosure

Press

Website Awards

About This Site

Legal Statement

Privacy Policy

This site complies with the HONcode standard for trustworthy health information:
verify here.

Copyright © 2011, The Mount Sinai Medical Center. All Rights Reserved. Site by Wang Media.