Vol 4, No 4 (July 13, 2015): Mitral Valve Repair (II)

Systematic Review

A meta-analysis of robotic vs. conventional mitral valve surgery

Christopher Cao, Hugh Wolfenden, Kevin Liou, Faraz Pathan, Sunil Gupta, Thomas A. Nienaber, David Chandrakumar, Praveen Indraratna, Tristan D. Yan

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Pages: 305-314

Keynote Lecture Series

Evolution of the concept and practice of mitral valve repair

Lawrence H. Cohn, Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili, Taufiek K. Rajab

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Pages: 315-321
Mitral valve repair over five decades

Jerome Jouan

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Pages: 322-334

Featured Articles

Current state of transcatheter mitral valve repair with the MitraClip

Emily A. Downs, D. Scott Lim, Mike Saji, Gorav Ailawadi

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Pages: 335-340
Quantitation of mitral regurgitation after percutaneous MitraClip repair: comparison of Doppler echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

Christian Hamilton-Craig, Wendy Strugnell, Niranjan Gaikwad, Matthew Ischenko, Vicki Speranza, Jonathan Chan, Johanne Neill, David Platts, Gregory M. Scalia, Darryl J. Burstow, Darren L. Walters

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Pages: 341-351

Research Highlight

Progressive design concepts in off-pump left ventricular remodeling mitral valve repair devices

David W. Yaffee, Eugene A. Grossi, Mark B. Ratcliffe

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Pages: 352-354
Myxomatous leaflet biological aberrations and potential therapeutic targets

Inga H. Melvinsdottir, Arnar Geirsson

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Pages: 355-357

Perspective

How has robotic repair changed the landscape of mitral valve surgery?

Amit K. Taggarse, Rakesh M. Suri, Richard C. Daly

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Pages: 358-363
Designing innovative retractors and devices to facilitate mitral valve repair surgery

Kazuma Okamoto, Ryohei Yozu

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Pages: 364-369

Art of Operative Techniques

The butterfly technique

Tohru Asai

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Pages: 370-375

Masters of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Contemporary application of the edge-to-edge repair

Alberto Pozzoli, Luca Vicentini, Michele De Bonis, Giovanna Di Giannuario, Giovanni La Canna, Ottavio Alfieri

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Pages: 376-379
The new butterfly technique—a sophisticated repair method for posterior leaflet prolapse

Tohru Asai, Tomoaki Suzuki, Takeshi Kinoshita

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Pages: 380-383
Sub-valvular repair of ischemic mitral regurgitation in a patient with severe tethering of mitral leaflets

Giampiero Esposito, Giangiuseppe Cappabianca, Samuele Bichi, Antonio Cricco, Camillo Poloni, Cesare Beghi

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Pages: 384-386
Haircut mitral valve repair: posterior leaflet-plasty

W. Randolph Chitwood Jr

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Pages: 387-392

Safeguards and Pitfalls

“Papillary heads optimization” for more geometric repair of functional mitral regurgitation toward ventricular treatment

Masashi Komeda, Tatsuya Ozawa, Minoru Matsuhama, Shinji Masuyama

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Pages: 393-396

Letter to the Editor

Asymptomatic mitral regurgitation—wait or operate?

Christopher Cao, Sohaib Virk, Chloe Wilcox, Elan Novis, Hugh Wolfenden

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Pages: 397-398

ACS Patient Page

Tissue and mechanical heart valves

Christopher Harris, Beth Croce, Christopher Cao

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Pages: 399

Guest Editor:
Y. Joseph Woo,
Stanford, USA