Mitral Valve Repair Center

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...

Book Review: Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery: From Valve Analysis to Valve Reconstruction

“In 1968, Dr. Carpentier established a new era in heart valve surgery when he introduced the concept of annular remodeling with prosthetic rings. He later broadened this concept in an effort to treat all types of valve lesions. In this volume, he has joined 2 American colleagues, Drs. D...

At long last, CoreValve trial gets green light from FDA

“Minneapolis, MN - The long-awaited US trial of the CoreValve transcatheter aortic-valve system is set to begin soon now that the FDA has granted Medtronic an investigational device exemption (IDE) for the pivotal study.” “The study, which the company expects to begin by the end of the...

The Mount Sinai Medical Center was ranked #13 in Heart and Heart Surgery for 2010-11

Best Hospitals 2010-11

The Mount Sinai Medical Center was ranked #13 in Heart and Heart Surgery for 2010-11 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 expertis...

Best Doctors 2010

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 2009

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...

Mending Hearts, Building Bridges

Inside Mount Sinai: Global Health Issue

“Accompanying Dr. Nguyen on the trip was David H. Adams, MD, the Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery. After obtaining a list of patients from local hospitals near Hue, Drs. Nguyen and Adams rolled up their sleeves and went t...

Weakened Mitral Valves are Treatable, but Type of Surgery Makes A Difference

As Professor and Chairman of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai, David Adams is a “superspecialist” in mitral valve repair--90% of his patients have mitral valve disease, and he performs several hundred valve repair surgeries a year.