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Options for Heart Valve Replacement Valve Replacement The aortic valve and the mitral valve are the most commonly replaced valves. Pulmonary and tricuspid valve replacements are fairly uncommon in adults. Replacing a narrowed valve: The most common valve surgical procedure is aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis, or narrowing of the aortic valve. Mitral stenosis is another condition that sometimes requires a valve replacement procedure.
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- This is dependent upon such things as which valve or valves need to be addressed, your specific medical conditions, and other factors. In general, there are two options to treat valvular heart disease: one is to repair your native valve, and the other is to replace your native valve with a prosthetic valve.
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Different Types of Heart Valve Problems Valvular Stenosis. Valvular Stenosis is the second type of the heart valve problem. This condition occurs in the case where the leaflets of one of the heart valves have become either stiff or have joined or fused together. Due to this stiffness, they may not allow the heart valve to open fully as it should otherwise.
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- 1 Mitral regurgitation is the most common type of valve problem. 2  Aortic valve regurgitation may stem from a congenital heart defect, complications of an infection or other more rare causes. 3  Pulmonary or spumoni regurgitation is more rare and is usually a result of other problems like pulmonary hypertension.
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Mayo Clinic's approach Advanced technology and treatment options. Mayo Clinic cardiac surgeons perform many types of heart valve surgery, including aortic valve repair and replacement, mitral valve repair and replacement, tricuspid valve repair and replacement, and pulmonary valve repair and replacement.
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- HeartMate II is a small, implantable heart pump, called an LVAD, that represents a breakthrough in medical technology and has rapidly become the most widely used and studied LVAD in the world.
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- The study included 260 patients with atrial fibrillation, the most common type of irregular heart rhythm, who each had mitral-valve surgery at one of 20 research centers in the United States and Canada.
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TAVR / TAVI - Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement One type of TAVR valve, made of bovine (cow) tissue and supported on a metal stent, is then implanted inside the narrowed valve resulting in a normal functioning aortic valve. With a TAVR procedure, the patient does not need the chest opened for surgery or put on a heart-lung (bypass) machine.
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How are damaged heart valves fixed? Heart valve repair: To repair a damaged valve, your surgeon can reshape or remove parts of the valve to make it function better. For example, if the valve fails to close tightly (called valve insufficiency), your surgeon may remove extra tissue or strengthen parts of the valve by sewing a ring around the valve opening.
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What is TAVR? Usually valve replacement requires an open heart procedure with a “sternotomy.”, in which the chest is surgically separated (open) for the procedure. The TAVR or TAVI procedures can be done through very small openings that leave all the chest bones in place.
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Options for Heart Valve Replacement The aortic valve and the mitral valve are the most commonly replaced valves. Pulmonary and tricuspid valve replacements are fairly uncommon in adults. Replacing a narrowed valve: The most common valve surgical procedure is aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis, or narrowing of the aortic valve.
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- Aortic valve replacement can relieve aortic valve stenosis and its symptoms. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Aortic valve replacement, the most common treatment for aortic valve stenosis, has traditionally been performed with open-heart surgery.
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Mitroflow Heart Valve Failure | Device Alert The Sorin Mitroflow is a bioprosthetic valve that is used to repair a damaged valve in patients with valvular heart disease. This type of heart valve is made from animal tissue and is often used in children born with congenital heart disease. It allows surgeons to repair a heart valve in children and young adults until they are old enough to receive a more durable mechanical valve. Bioprosthetic valves are expected to be replaced after 8 years, but surgeons are noticing that the Mitroflow valve is failing much earlier – sometimes in less than two to three years after placement.
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Minimally-Invasive Mitral Valve Repair and Replacement One of the most common disease of the mitral valve is known as mitral valve prolapse. In this condition one or both of the mitral valve leaflets swings too far backwards during each heartbeat such that the leaflets do not close properly, allowing blood to leak between them.
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Aortic Valve Repair Surgery Types of Aortic Valve Repair Surgery. Whenever possible, surgeons prefer to repair a damaged aortic valve rather than replace it. Aortic valve surgery is an open heart operation. This involves opening up the sternum, or breastbone (via median sternotomy), to provide access to the heart.
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- There are several types of heart valve disease: 1  Valvular stenosis. This occurs when a heart valve doesn't fully open due to stiff or fused leaflets. 2  Valvular insufficiency. Also called regurgitation, incompetence, or leaky valve, this occurs when a valve does not close tightly.
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TAVR / TAVI - Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Currently, this is an option for patients with severe aortic stenosis causing symptoms that are too high risk for standard valve replacement surgery. During a TAVI or TAVR procedure, a catheter about the size of a pen, is inserted in the artery in the leg and carefully passed up into the heart. One type of TAVR valve, made of bovine (cow) tissue and supported on a metal stent, is then implanted inside the narrowed valve resulting in a normal functioning aortic valve. With a TAVR procedure, the patient does not need the chest opened for surgery or put on a heart-lung (bypass) machine.
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TAVR (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement): The New Heart Valve Replacing Open Heart Surgery TAVR and TAVI are the same thing. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement means that the procedure is done through a samll tube (or catheter), rather than performing open-heart surgery. TAVR is similar to the mitraclip procedure for treating mitral regurgitation.The aortic valve is the structure that resembles a fish’s mouth opening and closing.spirin is recommended life long after a TAVR procedure. It is currently recommended a further blood thinning medicine called Plavix also be taken for 3-6 month after the procedure. Some people will be on these medicines long term anyway; such as those patients that have had a previous stent.
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Mechanical Heart Valve Replacement Devices When one of these valves malfunction, it can cause the heart to enlarge and lead to other complications, including congestive heart failure. Mechanical heart valves and biological heart valves are two different types of prosthetic heart valve replacements which mimic the functions of a human valve.
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Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery Surgery to replace an aortic valve is done for aortic valve stenosis and aortic valve regurgitation. During this surgery, the damaged valve is removed and replaced with an artificial valve. The valve replacement is typically an open-heart surgery.
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Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair Mitral valve regurgitation, for which surgical mitral valve repair is the treatment of choice, is the second most common clinically relevant valvular heart disease in adults and has an incidence of approximately 2 % to 3 % per year (Seeburger et al, 2011).
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Heart Valve Replacement There are two types of prosthetic valves used for replacement: tissue and mechanical. When heart valve replacement is necessary, the decision to implant either a tissue valve or a mechanical valve will be made based on several factors: 1  Health conditions (in addition to your heart issues). 2  Medications.
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- TAVR (tăv-er), is a heart procedure that does not require open-heart surgery. It provides a new aortic valve to patients with aortic valves that do not work properly. During the TAVR procedure, a new heart valve made from bovine (cow heart) tissue is collapsed and guided via a catheter to the patient’s aortic valve. Once the new valve is positioned inside of the patient’s own aortic valve, it is opened to restore blood flow to the body. Bronson Methodist Hospital is the only hospital in southwest Michigan qualified to offer four approaches to TAVR: Transaortic, through a small incision on the upper right side of the chest.
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Heart Valve Replacement Options include: 1  Autograft valves – In this case, the replacement valve is made from another valve within the patient's own heart. 2  Homograft valves – This replacement valve is taken from a deceased human donor. 3  Heterograft valves – In this case, the replacement valve comes from an animal donor, either a pig or a cow.
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Questions and Answers â Heart Valve Replacement (surgical)Heart Valve Disease Tissue valves usually have to be replaced after about 10 to 15 years,2 or more often in younger patients or children who may have outgrown their valves. Fortunately, tissue valves wear out slowly so you and your doctor have time to plan for a new operation, if it is necessary.
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TAVR - Frequently Asked Questions TAVR is a less invasive procedure in which the diseased aortic valve is replaced by inserting a balloon-expandable heart valve into the body through a tube called a catheter. This procedure is performed under general anesthesia while the heart is beating and therefore does not require use of the heart-lung machine.