CSI's Clinical Meetings

  20th June 2009

Minutes of last clinical meeting 20th june 2009

 

Mitral Valve Repair:
Current status


Dr. Rajendra Nahar

MS DNB IMCS (Italy) FIACTS

Dr Dhiraj M Gandhi MS

Dr. Subhash Mishra DA

 

Conclusion

 

•Valve repair is possible in large no. or rheumatic mitral regurgitation
•Current technique can effectively corrects the hemodynamics and functional abnormalities
•More aggressive effort is required to do the repair.
•Valve  reconstruction should be tried in all regurgitant cases
•Valve repair results are superior to valve replacement
•Dr Rajendra Nahar Chief Cardiac Surgeon BHRC Indore presented overview of surgical mitral valve techniques and their merits and demerits.
•He emphasized repair techniques used in rheumatic mitral regurgitation.
•He showed his results of Mitral Valve repair