Mitral Valve Repair Center

ASCVTS 2021

This program will be composed of various parallel sessions including the best of the submitted abstracts, lectures from special guest speakers, and joint sessions held with multiple international scientific society experts (AATS Postgraduate Course, STS, EACTS, and the African Society) ...

2022 AATS Mitral Conclave Workshop

The 2022 AATS Mitral Conclave will bring the world’s leading figures in mitral valve disease together for two days to discuss the latest information regarding management guidelines, imaging, pathology, minimally invasive approaches, percutaneous approaches, surgical techniques, devices,...

2022 AATS Annual Meeting

AATS has more than 100 years of history in shaping the evolution of cardiothoracic surgery. Experts unite at the Annual Meeting which has truly become the past, present, and future of the field. Each year, attendees from around the world are steadfast focused on excellence, leadership, ...

Mount Sinai Advanced Innovations in Heart Failure

MS Advanced 2022 is a one-day, virtual program focusing on intensive state-of-the-art review of heart failure and advanced cardiac care consisting of didactic lectures, debates and expert panel discussions of emerging or controversial topics in heart failure, mechanical circulatory supp...

Direct access hybrid transatrial implantation of a Sapien 3 valve inside a bioprosthetic mitral valve with concomitant tricuspid valve replacement and cryoablation

Sophia L. Alexis, Gilbert H. L. Tang, Dimosthenis Pandis, David H. Adams, Ahmed El-Eshmawi

We present the case of a 64-year-old high-risk male with a history of mitral valve (MV) endocarditis post-MV replacement (MVR) in 2005, complicated by MV prosthesis dehiscence due to recurrent endocarditis that required MV re-replacement one year later. Additional co-morbidities include...

Mitral Annular Disjunction: A Contrary View

Dimosthenis Pandis, MD, MSc, Anelechi C. Anyanwu, MD, FRCS, David H. Adams, MD, FACC

To the Editor: We read with interest the study by Essayagh and colleagues1 in the current edition of the journal. The authors hypothesize the potential prognostic value of mitral annular disjunction (MAD) in the occurrence of advanced degenerative mitral valve (MV) pathology and early ...

Mitral Surgery After Failed Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair: Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database Analysis

Joanna Chikwe, MD, David H. Adams, MD, et al.

Abstract Background Transcatheter edge-to-edge (TEER) mitral repair may be complicated by residual or recurrent mitral regurgitation. An increasing need for surgical reintervention has been reported, but operative outcomes are ill defined. Objectives This study evaluated national ou...

Outcomes of Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch Following Supra-Annular Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: From the STS/ACC TVT Registry

Gilbert HL Tang, Aditya Sengupta, Sophia L Alexis, Vinayak N Bapat, David H Adams, Samin K Sharma, Annapoorna S Kini, Susheel K Kodali, Basel Ramlawi, Hemal Gada, Amit N Vora, John K Forrest, Ryan K Kaple, Fang Liu, Michael J Reardon

Objectives The aim of this study was to assess the outcomes of severe prosthesis-patient mismatch (PPM) in the TVT (Transcatheter Valve Therapy) Registry in patients undergoing supra-annular transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) for de novo stenosis or failed surgical bioprosth...