TITLE:
Mitral Valve Replacement: Clinical experience with ball-valve prosthesis.
Summary:
TheMitralValve.
org provides information on Mitral Valve, Heart Valve Repair, Mitral valve
Replacement, Mitral Valve Repair, Regurgitation and Valve Leakage - Dr....
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TITLE:
Mitral Valve Replacement: Clinical experience with ball-valve prosthesis.
Summary:
TheMitralValve.
org provides information on Mitral Valve, Heart Valve Repair, Mitral valve
Replacement, Mitral Valve Repair, Regurgitation and Valve Leakage - Dr.
Farzan Filsoufi & Dr.
Alain
Carpentier.
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In the early 1950 s, the development of cardiopulmonary bypass became a reality after 20 years of
research led by John Gibbons and his wife, Mary.
John Gibbons performed the first successful cardiac
operation on a human using heart-lung machine on May 6, 1953.
The procedure was an atrial septal
defect closure in an eighteen year old girl.
The availability of extracorporeal circulation opened the era of
open heart surgery with direct access to intracardiac structures including the mitral valve.
Lillehei performed the first mitral valve repair under direct vision for mitral regurgitation in 1956.
Subsequently other repair techniques were described; most these techniques, however, were pa
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