How to create patient-specific loops for correcting mitral valve prolapse through a minimally invasive approach

Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg. 2019 Dec 19:2019. doi: 10.1510/mmcts.2019.042.

Abstract

A 72-year-old woman with a 6-month history of severe mitral valve regurgitation presented at our institution with dyspnea (NYHA II-III) and left ventricular impairment (LVEF 50%). Echocardiography showed P2-P3 prolapse with chordal rupture. A posterior mitral valve repair was performed using the loop technique through a minimally invasive approach. Only trivial postoperative regurgitation was observed. This video tutorial shows demonstrates our technique for this procedure and shows how we created self-made loop neochords.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Echocardiography / methods
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / methods
  • Mitral Valve Annuloplasty / methods*
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency* / diagnosis
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency* / physiopathology
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency* / surgery
  • Mitral Valve Prolapse* / diagnosis
  • Mitral Valve Prolapse* / physiopathology
  • Mitral Valve Prolapse* / surgery
  • Mitral Valve* / diagnostic imaging
  • Mitral Valve* / physiopathology
  • Mitral Valve* / surgery
  • Stroke Volume
  • Treatment Outcome