Valve Surgery Outcomes

Why choose Lankenau Medical Center for heart valve surgery?

• High volumes

• Over 12 years of experience with minimally invasive surgery

• Dedicated minimally invasive heart team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, physician assistants and nurse practitioners

• Every patient is considered for minimally invasive surgery, our STANDARD approach is minimally invasive

• Among an exclusive group of U.S. Hospitals chosen to perform transfemoral and transapical catheter-based aortic valve replacement using the Edwards SAPIEN valve. 

• We do not exclude patients with endocarditis, patients with previous heart operations, patients with Mitral Stenosis, patients with peripheral vascular disease, patients with tricuspid valve diseases, patients with pulmonary hypertension, patients with atrial fibrillation, or patients who need replacement

• We perform other procedures through a minimally invasive approach: tricuspid valve repair or replacement, patent foramen ovale closure, atrial septal defect closures, myxomas, fibroelastomas, MAZE procedures.

Repair Rates at Lankenau

• Mitral valve repair rates are  over 98% for myxomatous mitral valve disease (mitral valve prolapse, fibroelastic deficiency, Barlows, Marfans)

• Mitral valve repair rates for mitral stenosis are 60%

Lankenau does more minially invasive isolated mitral valve operations 

• 85% in the U.S. are performed with standard Sternotomy (Open Chest)*

• 15% in the U.S. are performed with some type of minimally invasive surgery*

• Over 90% at Lankenau Medical Center are performed minimally invasive

Our surgeons have done more minimally invasive isolated mitral valve operations

• The average number of isolated mitral valve operations for mitral regurgitation in the U.S. is 6 per year per surgeon*

• The average number of minimally invasive mitral valve surgeries in the U.S. is 3*

• Lankenau Medical Center performs over 50 minimally invasive mitral valve surgeries per year.

• The average cardiac surgeon performs less than 10 mitral valve surgeries per year.
• Lankenau Medical Centers performs over 100 mitral valve surgeries every year. 

* Less-Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery Operations: Trends and Outcomes fron the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. JS Gemmie, et.al. Ann Thorac Surg 2010;90:1401-1410 

 More information

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