Heart valve repair
Heart valve repair is a surgical technique used to fix defects in heart valves in valvular heart diseases, and provides an alternative to valve replacement. Without further specification, it refers to native heart valve repair, rather than repair of an artificial heart valve.General
Valvuloplasty is the widening of a stenotic valve using a balloon catheter. Types include:
of cardiac valves is called valvulotomy.By valve
Mitral valve repair is mainly used to treat stenosis or regurgitation of the mitral valve.Aortic valve repair is a surgical procedure used to correct some aortic valve disorders as an alternative to aortic valve replacement. Aortic valve repair is performed less often and is more technically difficult than mitral valve repair.
There are two surgical techniques of aortic-valve repair:
- The Reimplantation-Technique
- The Remodeling-Technique
Tricuspid valve repair is used to correct tricuspid regurgitation.History
The first two percutaneous ultrasound-guided fetal balloon valvuloplasties, a type of in utero surgery for severe aortic valve obstruction, were reported in 1991.
