Mitral Valve Repair
Surgical options for the treatment of degenerative, ischemic, inflammatory, and functional mitral valve diseases have expanded greatly in recent decades. Still, a dilemma exists with employing prosthetic mitral valves – in that mechanical valves exhibit g
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R. Hetzer J. S. Rankin C. A. Yankah (Eds.)
Mitral Valve Repair With 384 Figures and 31 Tables
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Roland Hetzer, MD, PhD
Charles A. Yankah, MD, PhD
Chairman Professor of Surgery Charité Medical University Berlin Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin Germany
Professor of Surgery Charité Medical University Berlin Consultant Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeon Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin Germany
J. Scott Rankin, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery Department of Cardiac Surgery Vanderbilt University Medical Center 320 Lynnwood Blvd. Nashville, TN 37205 USA
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Preface: A success story in medicine »There can be no more fascinating problem in surgery than the relief of pathological conditions of the valves of the heart.« Sir Henry Souttar, 1925
Cardiac valve surgery was first proposed a century ago by Dr. Harvey Cushing at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, which is ironic since Cushing is generally considered the father of neurosurgery. However, it was Cushing’s influence on his most illustrious student and successor in the Surgical Chairmanship at the Peter Bent Brigham hospital, Dr. Elliot Cutler, that led to the first heart valve operation – a mitral »valvotomy« for rheumatic mitral stenosis in 1923. But Cutler’s concep
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