Mitral Valve Surgery is a cardiac surgery to threat stenosis (narrowing) or regurgitation (leakage) of the mitral valve. Surgery is recommended when a malfunctioning mitral valve causes symptoms like shortness of breath or when it starts to cause weakness of the heart muscle. In the present, surgeons have treated mitral valve disease by implanting an artificial valve, known as a mitral valve replacement and this is an invasive method. But now days, repairing mitral valve is getting more popular instead of replacing.

Mitral valve repair involves a surgical procedure to fix your own heart valve, as opposed to replacing it with a mechanical or tissue valve. Different techniques can be used to repair a heart valve depending upon the problem you have.

The benefits of mitral valve repair may include reduced pain, reduced blood loss, reduced risk of infection, reduced risk of stroke, shorter hospital stay, faster recovery, faster return to work, less scarring, improved appearance after surgery. And this is a minimally invasive method. Minimally invasive mitral valve repair surgery is performed through a small incision, often using specialized surgical instruments. The incision is 2 to 4 inches instead of the 6- to 8-inch incision required for traditional surgery.

How about the patient in the next 10 or 20 years? Studies have shown that 95 % of patients will have a perfectly working valve after mitral valve repair surgery.

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