Mitral Valve Repair
The mitral valve is one of 4 valves in the heart. It opens and closes to control blood flow between the heart’s left atrium and the left ventricle.The mitral valve has two cusps or leaflets which guards the opening. The opening is surrounded by a fibrous ring known as the mitral valve annulus. The anterior cusp protects approximately two-thirds of the valve (imagine a crescent moon within the circle, where the crescent represents the posterior cusp). These valve leaflets are prevented from prolapsing into the left atrium by the action of tendons attached to the posterior surface of the valve, chordae tendineae.
One of the disorders of Mitral Valve is mitral valve regurgitation. It means that one of the valves in your heart-the mitral valve-is letting blood leak backward into the heart.Heart valves work like one-way gates, helping blood flow in one direction between heart chambers or in and out of the heart. The mitral valve is on the left side of your heart. It lets blood flow from the upper to lower heart chamber. Mitral valve surgery is one way to treat the disorder. At Maryland Heart Center they specialize in treating valvular disease that includes the mitral valve repair and mitral valve replacement.
