Mitral Valve Repair Center

New Treatment Could Help Fix the Heart’s ‘Forgotten Valve’

By Gina Kolata

For the first time, patients with damaged tricuspid valves in their hearts might have a safe treatment that actually helps. More than 1 million mostly older Americans have seriously leaking tricuspids, a valve on the right side of the heart that lets deoxygenated blood flow between the...

Transcatheter Repair for Patients with Tricuspid Regurgitation

Paul Sorajja, MD, Brian Whisenant, MD, David H. Adams, MD, et al.

Abstract Background Severe tricuspid regurgitation is a debilitating condition that is associated with substantial morbidity and often with poor quality of life. Decreasing tricuspid regurgitation may reduce symptoms and improve clinical outcomes in patients with this disease. Method...

2023 Mount Sinai Heart Specialty Report

Mount Sinai Heart is renowned internationally in all facets of cardiology care, cardiac surgery, and advanced research. Mount Sinai Heart's team of award-winning physicians has invigorated the science of cardiovascular medicine, pioneering treatments for arrhythmias, coronary artery dis...

Failure to Rescue: A Quality Metric for Cardiac Surgery and Cardiovascular Critical Care

Caroline R Gross, David H Adams, Parth Patel, Robin Varghese

AbstractFailure to rescue, defined as mortality after a surgical complication, is a widely accepted quality metric across many specialties and is becoming an important metric in cardiac surgery. The failure to rescue metric provides a target for improvements in patient outcomes after co...

In memoriam: Randall B. Griepp (1940-2022)

David H Adams, Dimosthenis Pandis

The worldwide community of cardiovascular surgeons lost a pioneer with the passing of Randall (Randy) B. Griepp on September 8, 2022, at age 82 years. Perhaps best known for his contributions to the field of aortic surgery, including pioneering the use of deep hypothermic circulatory ar...

Benchmarking Mitral Valve Repair: Defining Standards for Surgical and Percutaneous Treatment of Severe Mitral Regurgitation

Anelechi C Anyanwu, David H Adams

Accurately predicting the risks of surgical intervention in patients with degenerative mitral valve regurgitation is important given that current practice guidelines recommend early surgery on asymptomatic patients, provided they can be operated on with <1% mortality with a very high...

Outcomes of Simultaneous Heart and Kidney Transplantation

Shinobu Itagaki, Nana Toyoda, Noah Moss, Donna Mancini, Natalia Egorova, Takahisa Mikami, Erick Sun, Yuki Bekki, Gregory Serrao, Anuradha Lala, Percy Boateng, David H Adams, Anelechi C Anyanwu

AbstractBackgroundSimultaneous heart-kidney transplantation has been increasingly performed in end-stage heart failure patients with concurrent kidney dysfunction despite limited evidence supporting its indications and utility.ObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to investigate the e...

Cardiovascular Surgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital Wins Highest Quality National Ratings From Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Rating measures quality, safety, and outcomes of the five most common heart procedures

The Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital has received the highest possible three-star recognition in all of the cardiac surgery categories in the 2020-2023 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) report.The STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database is the current nationa...

'GMA' looks at mitral valve prolapse condition

In honor of Heart Health Month, [Good Morning America] shares the story of a mom who nearly died from a condition more commonly diagnosed in women while looking into the signs, symptoms and risk factors.View the story