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Last updated: 11/24/2009
BOOKS
Hensley, Frederick A., Donald E. Martin, and Glenn P. Gravlee, eds. A Practical Approach to Cardiac Anesthesia. 3rd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003.
Topol, Eric J., ed. Textbook of...
Interventional Cardiology. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 2002.
PERIODICALS
Bonow, R., et al. "ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Valvular Heart Disease."Journal of the American Collge of Cardiology 32 (November 1998): 1486–1582.
Brown, Katherine Kay. "Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery."Critical Care Nursing Quarterly 20 (February 1998): 40–52.
Sadovsky, Richard. "Using Warfarin After Heart Valve Replacement."American Family Physician 61 (April 1, 2000): 2219.
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Mitral valve replacement is a cardiac surgery procedure in which a patient’s mitral valve is replaced by a different valve. Mitral valve replacement is typically performed robotically or manually, when the valve becomes too tight (mitral valve stenosis) for blood to flow into the left ventricle, or too loose (mitral valve regurgitation) in which case blood can leak into the left atrium and back up into the lung. Some individuals have a combination of mitral valve stenosis and mitral valve regurgitation or simply one or the other.
A mitral valve replacement/repair is performed to treat severe cases of mitral valve prolapse, heart valve stenosis, or other valvular diseases. Since a mitral valve replacement is an open heart surgical procedure, it requires placing the patient on cardiopulmonary bypass to stop blood flow through the heart when it is opened up.
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Traditional Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery has undesirable side effects that range from cognitive loss to increased hospital stays that are believed to be related to artificial heart pumps. In this project, we believe that if the heart were able to beat freely during surgery, these pumps would not be needed and it is possible that these side effects might be lessened.
-M. Cenk Cavusoglu
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