[HSF] Restrictions after aortic surgery

[Tea Acuff]

Certainly when and if you find yourself correcting the mitral from the ventricular side for the first time, you do not want to draw any lessons from a surgeon who has done a thousand operations through the ventricular approach.

tea


----- Original Message ----
From: "Hgrmd at aol.com" <Hgrmd at aol.com>
To: OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 8:03:58 PM
Subject: Re: [HSF] Restrictions after aortic surgery

Bob,
  I've never had to replace a mitral valve while doing a ventricular  
aneurysm.  If and when I do, I'll try to do it from the ventricular   side.  One thing 
I'll never do, however, is a ventricular side DeVega as  recommended by 
Menicante.  When doing a mitral repair for annular  dilatation, a rigid or 
semirigid ring is necessary for a durable result.

Hal



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