This full-color atlas with accompanying video DVD provides a complete and practical "how-to" guide to planning and performing mitral valve repair surgery for mitral regurgitation.

Atlas of Mitral Valve Repair covers:

• the natural history of mitral regurgitation
• the functional anatomy of the mitral valve
• the use of echocardiography in preoperative evaluation and surgical planning
• chapters describe and illustrate all techniques currently used for mitral valve repair and discuss results

Also included with Atlas and Mitral Valve Repair is a bound-in DVD which presents narrated video clips of six cases that show the application of specific techniques. Each case begins with preoperative echocardiograms demonstrating the mitral valve defect and proceeds through key surgical maneuvers.

Contents

1. The Natural History of Mitral Regurgitation
2. Functional Anatomy of the Mitral Valve
3. Pathology of Mitral Valve Disease
4. Assessing the Functional Substrate of Mitral Regurgitation with Echocardiography
5. Overview of Mitral Valve Repair
6. Annuloplasty: Sutures, Bands, and Rings
7. Commissurotomy
8. Anterior Leaflet Repair Techniques
9. Posterior Leaflet Repair Techniques
10. Commissural Repair Techniques
11. Other Techniques
12. Complications and Assessing the Quality of Repair

Index

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