Minimally Invasive Surgery For Mitral Valve Prolapse

Mitral valve prolapse is a valvular heart disease marked by an improperly functioning heart valve. When a patient is faced with this issue it is most often met with open heart surgery. Open heart surgery means a large cut (and scar) down the middle of the chest, cutting through muscle and bone, risk of infection and long recovery times. It is not ideal. Fortunately, doctors at Sacred Heart Hospital are now getting heart-valve repair with an advanced and less invasive technique. The stay in the hospital is smaller, recovery time is quicker and less painful, and the scar is very small.

This new technique for heart-valve surgery is radically different than open heart surgery, but is showing the same, positive results. It involves a mere two-inch incision on the right side of the chest, between the ribs. This small incision does not involve cutting into any muscle or bone, and therefore decreases the risk of infection. On top of this, doctors are saying that the small incision actually makes it easier for the surgeon to see and treat the leaking heart valve than a huge, open chest method. The mitral valve faces the right shoulder blade, therefore the small incision is the perfect spot to reach the valve easily.





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