Excerpted from the 2009 Heart Valve Summit.

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Dr. Anyanwu: So, I am just going to present a case. This is a 64-year-old female who has no relevant prior history. She has got a two-week history of fever, malaise, and sweats. Her blood cultures are positive for enterococcus. She had an echocardiogram. I am going to show a very short clip, maybe Dr. Martin if you can just comment on this echo.

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So the first case, a 54 year-old man presents with a 10 year history of heart murmur, gradual onset of dyspnea; and a 6-month history of increased palpitations. His echo reveals severe MR due to bileaflet prolapse. The patient is referred for elective surgery.

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My topic is about who should operate, which is always politically charged somewhat since none of us like anything to do with regulation, at least some people in Washington do but I do not. On the other hand, this field sort of requires this question to be answered and there is a lot of data that is going to show that; my disclosures really do not have anything to do with what I am going to talk about. Let us start again with a question.

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My charge this morning is to show you the pictures from the operating room of both the mitral and the tricuspid valve and by way of disclosure I am the inventor of a couple of different rings which I am sure I will get ribbing from Randy about later but they do not have much to do with what I am going to show you here.