Mitral Valve Repair: Optimal Annual Case Volume for Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite strong recommendations from multiple societies to pursue durable mitral valve repair (MVr), repair rates and outcomes remain inconsistent across the world. This is partly due to limited surgeon and center experience and lack of centralization of care for this technically challenging operation.

Objectives

The authors evaluate the association between annual case volume and contemporary long-term outcomes of patients undergoing isolated MVr.

Methods

A systematic literature search was performed to identify contemporary studies on isolated MVr in adults from January 2013 to November 2023. The primary outcomes were long-term survival, freedom from reoperation, and freedom from recurrent mitral regurgitation (moderate-severe). A novel meta-analytic volume-

SUBMITTER: Hameed I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11867518 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature