Patients treated by mitral valve repair for mitral insufficiency can expect improved myocardial function and relief of symptoms.
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Mitral valve repair is performed to improve the function of the diseased valve so that it correctly controls the direction of blood flow.
Cardiothoracic and cardiovascular surgeons perform mitral valve repair. Surgeons are trained during their residency to perform these procedures, although a certain level of skill is required for perfection of the technique.
Mitral stenosis is the medical term meaning narrowing of the mitral valve.
Smoking causes heart disease and increases your chance of heart failure vastly. If your heart is already in bad shape which it is if you need a mitral valve replacement which is on the left side of the heart. Then I would say that you are only damaging the heart even more if it is in bad shape as is.
The mitral and bicuspid valves are the same thing.