Patient had combined robotic mitral valve replacement and coronary artery bypass surgery.
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Nina Starr Braunwald performed the first mitral valve replacement in 1960 at the hospital.
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It can lead to pulmonary edema and hemodynamic compromise, necessitating urgent surgical mitral valve replacement.
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There are two surgical options for the treatment of MI : mitral valve replacement and mitral valve repair.
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Before the end of 1970s he started doing open heart operations which mainly included aortic and mitral valve replacements.
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The indication for invasive treatment with either a mitral valve replacement or valvuloplasty is NYHA functional class III or IV symptoms.
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The treatment options for mitral stenosis include medical management, mitral valve replacement by surgery, and percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty by balloon catheter.
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The beating heart mitral valve replacement technique is as safe as the arrested heart technique, and is the recommended alternative to arrested heart technique.
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The Neovasc Tiara is a bioprosthetic mitral valve with a novel transcatheter implantation approach to minimize complications associated with conventional mitral valve replacement or repair.
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Ionescu and associates in Leeds, England, used for the first time porcine aortic valves mounted on an original valve support for mitral valve replacement in humans.