Extensive use of artificial chordae for repairing diffuse mitral valve prolapse.
A diffuse mitral valve prolapse was successfully repaired in 2 patients using polytetrafluoroethylene sutures as artificial chordae. In a 16-year-old boy with Marfan's syndrome and in a 56-year-old woman, a total of 11 and ten pairs of polytetrafluoroethylene sutures were used, respectively, to repair a severe mitral valve prolapse. We consider mitral valve repair using polytetrafluoroethylene sutures to be the treatment of choice for a diffuse prolapse of the mitral valve involving both the anterior and posterior leaflets.
Morita
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S
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Yasui
H
H
Harasawa
Y
Y
Tomita
Y
Y
Tominaga
R
R
D000293:Adolescent; D002815:Chordae Tendineae / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008945:Mitral Valve Prolapse / Q000601:surgery*; D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D013537:Sutures
D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene