{"id":1046,"date":"2010-01-31T09:58:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/01\/31\/first-successful-mitral-valve-repair-commissurotomy\/"},"modified":"2019-01-27T11:10:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T16:10:03","slug":"first-successful-mitral-valve-repair-commissurotomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/01\/31\/first-successful-mitral-valve-repair-commissurotomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivia: When Was The World’s First Successful Mitral Valve Repair?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you ready for some very interesting heart valve surgery trivia?<\/p>\n

The question for today is, “When was the first successful mitral valve repair surgery?”<\/p>\n

Your multiple choice answers are:<\/p>\n

A. 1935
\nB. 1948
\nC. 1955
\nD. 1968
\nE. 1971<\/p>\n

Scroll down below the mitral valve repair diagram for the answer.<\/p>\n

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\"Commissurotomy<\/div>\n

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According to G. Wayne Miller, in King Of Hearts: The True Story Of The Man Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery<\/em>, the first successful mitral valve repair surgery<\/a>, a commissurotomy, was performed on June 10, 1948.<\/p>\n

So, the answer to our trivia question is B.<\/p>\n

If you are curious… The surgery was performed by Dr. Charles P. Bailey at Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was Dr. Bailey’s fifth attempt at a mitral valve repair surgery.<\/p>\n

The patient, Claire Ward, was a twenty-four year old housewife who, as a child, had suffered from rheumatic fever<\/a>, an infection that can damage the mitral valve. Mrs. Ward had lived with a heart murmur until, as an adult, her health began to fail. By the time Dr. Bailey saw her, Claire could not care for her children, she could not draw a good breath and medication did nothing to help.<\/p>\n

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\"Dr.
\nDr. Charles P. Bailey (1910-1993)<\/div>\n
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Interestingly, Mrs. Ward’s primary physician advised her to NOT have the operation. However, Dr. Bailey treated her mitral stenosis with a hooked knife that widened her valve – known as commissurotomy. Doctor Bailey also used his finger (yes, his finger) to further open the valve.<\/p>\n

“How did she do after mitral valve surgery?”<\/em> you might be wondering.<\/p>\n

Claire Ward had two more children and lived for 38 more years after her mitral valve repair operation. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Keep on tickin!
\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mitral-valve-repair"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}