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Is open heart surgery the best way to repair the Mitral Valve
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Apr 5 10:30pm | Replies (15)Comment receiving replies
I had minimally invasive surgery for a mitral valve repair. ....minimally invasive means that they go between the ribs instead of a sternotomy; they still have to cut into the heart. This also required bypass, but maybe that is what you were saying - wording sounded like only full open heart required bypass. I don't see how they could open the heart up without putting you on bypass.
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The minimally invasive is not open heart, which is the whole idea...not to have to bust up the sternum, and as you know, it involves slipping between the ribs. Bypass is required in all cases of valve repair, but excluding the TAVR for aortic valve, because it's so difficult to place implements and the repair materials in powerful blood flow of a beating heart.