Heart valve repair
 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification.(September 2014) |
| Heart valve repair | |
|---|---|
| Specialty | cardiac surgery |
| ICD-9-CM | 35.0-35.2 |
Heart valve repairis acardiac surgeryprocedure, carried out to repair one or more faultyheart valves.In somevalvular heart diseasesrepair where possible is preferable tovalve replacement.Amechanical heart valveis a replacement valve that is not itself subject to repair.
General
[edit]Valvuloplastyis the widening of astenotic valveusing aballoon catheter.Types include:[citation needed]
- Aortic valvuloplastyin repair of a stenotic aortic valve
- Mitral valvuloplastyin the correction of an uncomplicated mitral
Valvulotomy
[edit]Commissurotomyofheart valvesis called avalvulotomy.
By valve
[edit]Mitral valve repair
[edit]Mitral valve repairis mainly used to treatstenosis(narrowing) orregurgitation(leakage) of themitral valve.[citation needed]
Aortic valve repair
[edit]Aortic valve repairis asurgical procedureused to correct someaortic valvedisorders as an alternative toaortic valve replacement.[1]Aortic valve repair is performed less often and is more technically difficult thanmitral valve repair. There are two surgical techniques of aortic-valve repair:
- The Reimplantation-Technique (David-Procedure)
- The Remodeling-Technique (Yacoub-Procedure)
Tricuspid valve repair
[edit]Tricuspid valve repair is used to correcttricuspid regurgitation.[2]
History
[edit]The first two percutaneous ultrasound-guided fetal balloon valvuloplasties, a type ofin uterosurgeryfor severeaortic valveobstruction, were reported in 1991.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Hans-Joachim Schäfers:Current treatment of aortic regurgitation. UNI-MED Science, Bremen, London, Boston 2013,ISBN978-3-8374-1406-6.
- ^Page 4 in:Elizabeth D Agabegi; Agabegi, Steven S. (2008).Step-Up to Medicine (Step-Up Series).Hagerstwon, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.ISBN978-0-7817-7153-5.
- ^Kohl, T.; Sharland, G.; Allan, L. D.; Gembruch, U.; Chaoui, R.; Lopes, L. M.; Zielinsky, P.; Huhta, J.; Silverman, N. H. (2000-05-15). "World experience of percutaneous ultrasound-guided balloon valvuloplasty in human fetuses with severe aortic valve obstruction".The American Journal of Cardiology.85(10): 1230–1233.doi:10.1016/s0002-9149(00)00733-5.ISSN0002-9149.PMID10802006.
