Respecting The Mitral With Home-Made Loops
In this video, we have used a home-made chord loops for
mitral valve repair. We believe that this system is flexible for the mitral
surgeons as the number of loops can be controlled. Usually, we use the Chordex
system made by On-X, but due the shortage of supplies we faced due the
pandemic, we started to make this system intraoperatively.
We usually use size 16mm chords for posterior mitral leaflet and 20-24mm chords
for anterior mitral leaflet. So far, we have used this system in a large number
of patients with good results.
References
1. 1. RANGANATHAN N, LAM J, WIGLE E, SILVER M. Morphology of
the Human Mitral Valve. Circulation. 1970;41(3):459-467.
2.2. Suri R. Chordae Replacement Versus Resection for Repair of Isolated Posterior Mitral Leaflet Prolapse: À Ègalité. Yearbook of Cardiology. 2010;2010:240-242.
