Mitral Valve Repair Center

Best Doctors 2003

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...

Best Doctors 2002

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...

Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation in Mitral Valve Disease: Epidemiology and Prognostic Implications

Anelechi C. Anyanwu, MD and David H. Adams, MD

In this review we summarize the data on epidemiology and natural history of functional tricuspid valve regurgitation as it applies to surgery for mitral valve disease. Tricuspid regurgitation in the context of mitral valve disease is frequent and is associated with substantial reduction...

Surgical Management of Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation with a New Remodeling Annuloplasty Ring

Farzan Filsoufi, Sacha P. Salzberg, Vivian Abascal, David H. Adams

Moderate-to-severe functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR) should be corrected in patients undergoing surgery for left-sided valvular diseases, to improve long-term outcomes. Several techniques of surgical repair (suture annuloplasty or prosthetic annuloplasty) to correct this condition...

A Three-Dimensional Ring Annuloplasty for the Treatment of Tricuspid Regurgitation

Significant functional tricuspid regurgitation should be corrected in patients undergoing surgery for left-sided valvular diseases. Several clinical studies have shown the superiority of the remodeling annuloplasty over other repair techniques. Herein we report our early experience with...

Optimal Surgical Management of Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation in Cardiac Transplant Patients

Farzan Filsoufi MD, Sacha P. Salzberg MD, Curtis A. Anderson MD, Gregory S. Couper MD, Lawrence H. Cohn MD and David H. Adams MD

Severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) with signs of right-sided heart failure is rare after orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT). In some instances, this condition will require surgical correction using reconstructive surgery or prosthetic valve replacement. Repair techniques of atriove...

Long-term outcomes of tricuspid valve replacement in the current era.

Farzan Filsoufi MD, Ani C. Anyanwu MD, Sacha P. Salzberg MD, Tim Frankel MD, Lawrence H. Cohn MD and David H. Adams MD

Regardless of the indication, tricuspid valve replacement (TVR) has historically been associated with high mortality and morbidity. We report the results of our experience in a high-risk patient population with an emphasis on operative mortality, long-term survival, and valve related ev...

Transcatheter aortic-valve replacement with a self-expanding prosthesis

David H. Adams, M.D et al.

We compared transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR), using a self-expanding transcatheter aortic-valve bioprosthesis, with surgical aortic-valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis and an increased risk of death during surgery. In patients with severe aortic steno...

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Using a Self-Expanding Bioprosthesis in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis at Extreme Risk for Surgery

Jeffrey J. Popma, MD, David H. Adams, MD et al.

This study sought to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the CoreValve transcatheter heart valve (THV) for the treatment of severe aortic stenosis in patients at extreme risk for surgery.

Initial experience with routine less invasive implantation of HeartMate II left ventricular assist device without median sternotomy.

Anelechi C. Anyanwu, MD, Shinobu Itagakia, MD, Sean Pinney, MD and David H. Adams, MD

Standard implantation of HeartMate II (HMII) left ventricular assist device requires an extended median sternotomy; this incision, while generally well tolerated, may add morbidity in critically ill debilitated patients. We recently adopted a sternum sparing technique for routine HMII i...