Mitral Valve Repair Center

Mastery of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Second Edition

Chapter 41: Mitral Valve Repair: Ischemic, David H. Adams, Farzan Filsoufi, Lishan Aklog, and Sacha P. Salzberg

Chapter 41: Mitral Valve Repair: Ischemic David H. Adams, Farzan Filsoufi, Lishan Aklog, and Sacha P. Salzberg Pages 369-377 Excerpt: “Mitral valve repair is the procedure of choice for correction for type IIIb ischemic mitral regurgitation. The main goal of valve repair is to restore...

Sabiston & Spencer Surgery of the Chest, 7th Edition

Chapter 74: Acquired Disease of the Mitral Valve Farzan Filsoufi, Sacha P. Salzberg, Lishan Aklog, David H. Adams

Chapter 74: Acquired Disease of the Mitral Valve Farzan Filsoufi, Sacha P. Salzberg, Lishan Aklog, David H. Adams Pages 1299-1334 Excerpt: “Mitral valve repair is the procedure of choice for correction of severe mitral regurgitation. The goals of valve repair include preserving leafle...

Cardiac Surgery in the Adult

Chapter 36: Mitral Valve Repair - Rheumatic, Javier G. Castillo, MD, and David H. Adams, MD

Mitral Valve Repair - Rheumatic. In Lawrence E. Cohn (ed) Cardiac Surgery in the Adult 5th Edition. Chapter 36:825-832. Saunders Elsevier, 2017

Braunwald's Heart Disease, 7th Edition

Chapter 76: Medical Management of the Patient Undergoing Cardiac Surgery, David H. Adams, Farzan Filsoufi, Elliott M. Antman

Chapter 76: Medical Management of the Patient Undergoing Cardiac Surgery David H. Adams, Farzan Filsoufi, Elliott M. Antman Pages 1993-2020 Excerpt: “Continued advances in cardiac surgery make operative repair of a variety of cardiac lesions a viable therapeutic alternative for numero...

Kaplan's Cardiac Anesthesia, 5th Edition

Chapter 4: The Future of Cardiac Surgery and Anesthesia - The Future of Cardiac Surgery, Anelechi Anyanwu, David H. Adams

Chapter 4: The Future of Cardiac Surgery and Anesthesia - The Future of Cardiac Surgery Anelechi Anyanwu, David H. Adams Pages 59-64 Excerpt: “The future of cardiac surgery is closely related to the future of cardiology (see Chapter 3). Because of advances in diagnosis, better medical...

Busiest Docs Get Best Results With Heart Valve Surgery

Patients who have heart valve surgery get better results and are more likely to survive if their surgeon does a lot of the operations, a new study.

Patients who have heart valve surgery get better results and are more likely to survive if their surgeon does a lot of the operations, a new study. Researchers from Mount Sinai Health System in New York City studied New York state data on patients who had a type of heart operation call...

Mitral Valve Surgery Volume Matters - Study supports having centers of excellence in mitral valve repair

Mitral valve prolapse is more likely to be repaired successfully if operators perform the procedure at least 25 times a year, researchers found.

Mitral valve prolapse is more likely to be repaired successfully if operators perform the procedure at least 25 times a year, researchers found. Records from a New York State mandatory-reporting cardiac surgery database showed that operators achieved a degenerative mitral valve repair ...

AATS Mitral Conclave Draws the Largest Crowd Ever

The fourth biennial the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Mitral Conclave 2017 was attended by a large audience of cardiothoracic surgeons and other professionals from 67 countries on Thursday and Friday to hear the latest on repair and replacement of the mitral valve. C...

The Mount Sinai Hospital was ranked #8 in Cardiology and Heart Surgery for 2016-17

Best Hospitals 2016-17

Over 600 hospitals were evaluated in the Cardiology & Heart Surgery category. All treat significant numbers of difficult patients - a hospital is listed only if it treated at least 1,200 such inpatients in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The top 50 hospitals are ranked by score.

Best Doctors 2016

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...