It's a Team Sport

In this issue of Seminars, Jimenez and colleagues1 present their outcomes and repair rates for mitral valve (MV) operations following implementation of a dedicated multidisciplinary heart valve team at a low mitral volume Veterans Administration (VA) hospital. In this retrospective review of 103 consecutive mitral operations performed upon initiation of their heart valve team in 2009, through to 2016, MV repair rates increased to 67% compared to 21% from the previous 8-year period. In this recent era, repair rates for degenerative disease were 86.5% (64/74) with mild or less residual mitral regurgitation (MR) in longitudinal follow-up and no mitral reoperations.

Source: Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - April 17, 2019 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Chris Cook, Mohammed Alreshidan, Muhammad Salman, Lawrence M. Wei, Harold G. Roberts, J. Scott Rankin, Vinay Badhwar Tags: ADULT – Editorial Commentary Source Type: research