Mitral valve replacement is a procedure whereby the diseased mitral valve of a patient’s heart is replaced by either a mechanical or tissue (bioprosthetic) valve.

The mitral valve may need to be replaced because:

• The valve is leaky (mitral valve regurgitation)
• The valve is narrowed and doesn’t open properly (mitral valve stenosis)

Causes of mitral valve disease include infection, calcification and inherited collagen disease. Current mitral valve replacement approaches include open heart surgery and minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS).

Miniinvasive MVRepair

Miniinvasive mitral valve repair. Any mitral valve prolaps can be corrected and valve can be saved.

MV Ring Dehiscence – Minimally invasive MV Replacement

One may believe, that MV annulus in ischemic MR could be downsized as much as surgeon wishes. This is not true because of several issues. Most important – ring dehiscence may happen, even after several months, as happened in this case, referred to us.

Redo Minimally Invasive MItral Valve Replacement

Redo Mitral Valve Repair

Re-Repair MV (minimally invasive post sternotomy)

Never fix PTFE chords with polypropylene sutures. This tears the PTFE. Main message to all surgeons who do this. Great thanks to Dr. Safadi for his technique of chords knotting.

Dr. Oleksandr Babliak