Heart Valve Repair Program
The Penn Cardiac Care Heart Valve Repair Program
offers advanced repair options to patients who
are suffering from complex mitral valve disease,
and who may have been turned away from other institutions.
Our ability to treat a wide variety of patients
with mitral valve insufficiency sets it apart
from other programs in the Delaware Valley
Often, mitral valve repair is a better choice
than mitral valve replacement. Advantages of mitral
valve repair include:
- increase in long term survival
- decreased risk of infection and complications
- no need for long-term use of blood thinners
Mitral valve repair is potentially possible among
patients with advanced mitral valve disease, either
from rheumatic, ischemic or advanced myxomatous
etiology. Our program actively pursues repair
in all types of complex mitral valve disease,
many of whom have been turned away from other
institutions. Complex cases seen by Penn Cardiac
Care physicians include patients with:
- severe mitral insufficiency with minimal or
no symptoms who require repair prior to the
development of heart failure
- congestive heart failure and poor cardiac
function, who require repair for the treatment
of heart failure.
Surgeons
Michael
A. Acker, MD
Joseph
E. Bavaria, MD
Clark
W. Hargrove III, MD
Rohinton
Morris, MD
Alberto
Pochettino, MD
Y.
Joseph Woo, MD
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