Tabata Minoru, Morimura Hayato, Nakanaga Hiroshi
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Bay Urayasu Ichikawa Medical Center, Chiba, Japan; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Bay Urayasu Ichikawa Medical Center, Chiba, Japan.
Ann Thorac Surg. 2022 Feb;113(2):e149-e151. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.04.051. Epub 2021 May 1.
Small leaflets make mitral valve repair procedures challenging. Our double-leaflet technique creates a new autologous pericardial leaflet attached to the papillary muscle, annuloplasty ring, and neighboring scallops above the small or tethered posterior leaflet. This simple additional technique provides deep coaptation after mitral valve repair for both degenerative and functional mitral regurgitation with the small or tethered posterior leaflet.
