Main description:

Preoperative and intraoperative echocardiography has become an indispensable tool for guiding mitral valve surgery and has fostered the development of many innovative surgical techniques. Mitral valvuloplasty is now an established surgical method for the treatment of mitral insufficiency but the success is largely dependent on the extent of the underlying disease of the mitral valve. The book by Dr. Ng and coauthors is an extraordinary presentation of the relation between echocardiographic display of mitral valve pathology and reconstructive mitral valve surgery. The atlas provides an excellent illustrative guide to teach echocardiographic-anatomic correlations and educates the reader on the techniques of mitral valve repair. The quality of the illustrations, particularly the surgical photographs is exquisite. The book will be helpful for cardiologists and cardiac surgeons.

Contents:

Introduction Classification of mitral insufficiency according to leaflet mobility Principles of reconstruction Mitral valve surgery in annulus calcification Mitral valve surgery in Barlow's disease Mitral valve surgery for complications of endocarditis Mitral valve surgery in the presence of leaflet restriction Combined reconstruction with leaflet extension plasty Mitral valve surgery in the presence of leaflet elongation Mitral valve surgery in the presence of flail leaflet Surgery for mitral apparatus disorders caused by ischemic heart disease Operations in the atrioventricular valves in the presence of blunt cardiac trauma Operations in the presence of multivalvular defects Contraindications for reparative surgery Results Discussion Conclusion