Quality & Outcomes: Mitral Valve Repair
In 2007, 70% of mitral valve procedures at Penn were reparative surgeries.
Penn Medicine offers a diverse array of surgical techniques and options for patients with mitral valve insufficiency, including:
- Repair via sternotomy
- Minimally-invasive sternal-sparing surgery
- Robotic surgery with three-dimensional endoscopic imaging
- Advanced port access surgery
Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair Options:
Port Access Mitral Valve Repair
W. Clark Hargrove III, MD, is a national leader in port access mitral valve repair. To date, Dr. Hargrove has performed 374 of the 395 port access mitral valve repairs performed at Penn––and performed 63 of these complex surgeries in 2007 alone. In the near future, robotic port access mitral valve repair will be available at Penn.
Of the total 651 port access mitral valve repair and replacement procedures performed at Penn between 1998 and 2007, 107 (16.4 percent) were in patients with previous CABGs or mitral valve repairs via sternotomy. The majority of reoperative procedures (68 percent) were port access mitral valve repairs via right thoracotomy.*
*SOURCE: Presented at Interventional Society
for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery, June 2008.
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