Mitral Valve Repair Center

The Mount Sinai Medical Center was ranked #10 in Heart and Heart Surgery for 2012-13

Best Hospitals 2012-13

More than 600 hospitals are listed in Heart & Heart Surgery. All are experienced in treating difficult cases - a hospital is listed only if at least 1,244 inpatients who needed a high level of expertise in this specialty were treated there in 2010, 2011, and 2012. The top 50 hospitals a...

Best Doctors 2012

David H. Adams - Thoracic Surgery Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a New York City research and information firm, determines the rankings based on a regional peer-review survey that asks thousands of licensed physicians to nominate the physicians who, in their judgment, are the best in th...

Mitral valve leakage can lead to heart failure if left untreated

A cardiothoracic surgeon at Mount Sinai, Dr. Anelechi Anyanwu specializes in performing surgeries for complex heart valve problems and heart failure.

First AATS Mitral Conclave a Success

Dr. David H. Adams is the Program Director of the AATS Mitral Conclave. “The first-ever AATS Mitral Conclave was held on May 5th and 6th. The world's leading experts in mitral valve disease convened to discuss management guidelines, imaging, pathology, minimally invasive pr...

Best Doctors 2011

David H. Adams - Thoracic Surgery Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a New York City research and information firm, determines the rankings based on a regional peer-review survey that asks thousands of licensed physicians to nominate the physicians who, in their judgment, are the best in th...

Valves Addressed in CHD Sessions

“David H. Adams, MD, of Mount Sinai Medical Center discussed resection and nonresection techniques in degenerative valve disease in teenagers and young adults. In a series of videos, he showed a lesion-specific approach to valve reconstruction. "One must be even more precise in younger...

A Pioneering Device For Heart Valve Repair

“David H. Adams, MD, Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chair of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, has performed the first U.S. implantation of a new ring designed to treat deterioration of the heart's tricuspid valve. Dr. Adams also ...

“Should Asymptomatic Patients With Moderate-to-Severe Mitral Regurgitation Have Surgery?” With Dr. David Adams

Dr. David H. Adams, MD, joins author, Adam Pick, at the 47th Annual Society of Thoracic Surgeons meeting to answer, “Should Asymptomatic Patients With Moderate-to-Severe Mitral Regurgitation Have Surgery?“

A New Alternative to Open Heart Surgery

“Three physicians at Mount Sinai Heart became the first team in the United States to perform a percutaneous implantation of a new device that replaces a diseased aortic heart valve, an advance that provides a viable treatment for patients too elderly or infirm to undergo open heart surg...