The Mount Sinai Hospital The Mitral Foundation

  • Intensive Care Team

    The Cardiothoracic Surgery Intensive Care team consists of a group of attending physicians board certified in critical care medicine and anesthesiology or cardiac surgery. Our CSICU is one of the few in the nation that provides around the clock coverage by board certified Critical Care Physicians Specialists (aka an Intensivist).Having a dedicated intensivist involved in the care of cardiothoracic...

  • Physician Assistants

    The excellent physician staff is complemented by a staff of nationally certified (NCCPA and AAPA) and registered Physician Assistants. These health care professionals are licensed to practice medicine with physician supervision. As part of their responsibilities, The Physician Assistants conduct physical exams, diagnose and treat illnesses, order and interpret tests, counsel on preventive health c...

  • Magnet Recognized Nurses

    Magnet RecogntionThe Mount Sinai Hospital has received national recognition for excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program®, which is considered the gold standard, and the nation's highest recognition for nursing excellence. Only about 8 percent of U.S. hospitals have received the Magnet® designation. First awarded in 2004, The Mount Sinai Hospital...

  • Innovations

    Mitral surgeons at The Mount Sinai Hospital are also leading clinical trials that may one day revolutionize less invasive mitral valve repair and replacement.Dr. Adams is the national co-principal investigator of the NeoChord FDA pivotal trial, which is establishing the efficacy of closed beating heart mitral valve repair through a mini-thoracotomy compared with open surgery. In November 2016, Dr....

  • Advancing Physician Education

    The Mitral Foundation is an important part of the Mount Sinai team’s mission to be a leading resource for education in the treatment of mitral valve disease.The Mitral Foundation Center hosts several surgical education courses every year, in which surgeons come from all over the world to learn advanced techniques in valve reconstruction from Dr. Adams and his team. The Mitral Foundation is leading...

  • Administrative Team

    Teresa KearnsTeresa Kearns oversees the administrative team in Dr. Adams's office to ensure all patient visits go smoothly. She works closely with out-of-state and international patients to coordinate their trip, tests and surgery. Teresa also collaborates with Dr. Adams and his team of surgeons, Nurse Practitioners and nurses to ensure patients feel comfortable with their surgical plan and confid...

  • Scheduling Coordinators

    Therese (Terry) KingScheduling Coordinator Francisco (Frank) GalarzaScheduling CoordinatorTherese (Terry) King and Francisco (Frank) Galarza are our Surgery Admissions Coordinators. You can contact them at 212-659-6821, Fax # 212-426-2050, if you have any questions concerning your admission to The Mount Sinai Hospital.Terry and Frank will work with you to schedule your pre-surgical testing as wel...

  • Re-repair of the mitral valve as a primary strategy for early and late failures of mitral valve repair.

    Anelechi C. Anyanwu, MD, Shinobu Itagaki, MD, Robin Varghese, MD, Javier Castillo, MD, Joanna Chikwe, MD and David H. Adams, MD

    Our series demonstrates that, with a systematic approach emphasizing valve re-repair as a primary strategy, valve preservation is possible in most of the patients with a failed mitral valve repair. Patient survival with re-repair was very good, and re-repairs remained durable to the mid...

    July 17, 2013 | European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

  • All anterior and bileaflet mitral valve prolapses are repairable in the modern era of reconstructive surgery.

    Javier G. Castillo, MD, Anelechi C. Anyanwu, MD, Ahmed El-Eshmawi, MD and David H. Adams, MD

    Although recent data from various registries document that mitral valve repair has increased in frequency over the past decade, approximately 1 in 4 patients continue to undergo valve replacement [1]. While the techniques for repairing the prolapsing posterior leaflet are relatively wel...

    May 08, 2013 | European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

  • Predicting systolic anterior motion after mitral valve reconstruction: using intraoperative transoesophageal echocardiography to identify those at greatest risk.

    Robin Varghese, MD, Shinobu Itagaki, MD, Anelechi C. Anyanwu, MD, Paula Trigo, MD, Gregory Fischer, MD and David H. Adams, MD

    Systolic anterior motion (SAM) is reported to occur in 4-10% of cases after mitral valve repair (MVR) [1-3]. A number of surgical techniques have been suggested to decrease the incidence of SAM after MVR [3, 4]. Knowing which patients are at an increased risk for developing SAM at the t...

    May 08, 2013 | European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery