{"id":20114,"date":"2015-10-20T05:01:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T10:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=20114"},"modified":"2024-11-13T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T22:44:34","slug":"annuloplasty-ring-durability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2015\/10\/20\/annuloplasty-ring-durability\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon Q&#038;A: &#8220;How Durable Is A Heart Valve Repair Ring?&#8221; asks Diane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During our recent &#8220;Ask Me Anything&#8221; video series, I received a great question from Diane McKee. In her email, Diane writes, &#8220;I had a mitral valve repair 20 years ago. Is the heart valve repair ring going to last a life span?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To answer Diane&#8217;s question about annuoloplasty ring durability, I met with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Steven-Bolling-Ann+Arbor-Michigan.php\">Dr. Steven Bolling<\/a>, who is the Director of the Mitral Valve Clinic at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Here is Dr. Bolling&#8217;s response:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U6YBIVIYMOo\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I hope that helped Diane (and perhaps you) learn more about the durability of the annuloplasty rings that are used to repair mitral valves. Thanks to Diane for her question <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> a special thanks to Dr. Steven Bolling for sharing his clinical experience and research with our patient community.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Steven-Bolling-Ann+Arbor-Michigan.php\">See Dr. Bolling&#8217;s Interactive Surgeon Profile.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>P.S. For the hearing impaired members of our community, I posted the transcript of this interview below:<\/p>\n<p>Adam: Hi everybody, it\u2019s Adam with heartvalvesurgery.com. We\u2019re at the Heart Valve Summit and we\u2019re answering your questions that you submitted to Facebook. Today I\u2019m thrilled to be with Dr. Steve Bolling from the University of Michigan. Steve thanks for being here.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Steve Bolling: Hi Adam. Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Adam: We\u2019re answering Diane McKee\u2019s question. She says, I had a mitral valve repair 20 years ago, is the annuloplasty ring going to last a life span?<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Steve Bolling: Diane, that\u2019s a good question. It\u2019s already lasted a long time and it will probably last you forever. Remember to take your antibiotic when you go to the dentist because your chance of having that breakdown or anything go bad is probably related to some kind of delayed infection, so take your antibiotics. I would say that thing will last a lot longer than you will. You\u2019ve had a great result. Have a nice, nice long life. You probably will die from something, but not from your mitral valve disease.<\/p>\n<p>Adam: Great. Steve maybe you can tell \u2013 Dr. Bolling, maybe you can explain for them what is the ring made of? Why is it so durable inside the heart?<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Steve Bolling: It is made of silicone and some have metal in them but what makes them so durable is all the rings of wrap and cloth called Dacron or some type of porous cloth that the heart actually grows in. Within 30-60 days that becomes part of you. It is you. It is not different. The body doesn\u2019t see it as something different, it\u2019s just you.<\/p>\n<p>Adam: \u00a0Dr. Bolling, thanks for all of your incredible help at the University of Michigan. As we always say here, keep on ticking.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Steve Boling: Thanks, Adam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20114","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\/20114","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=20114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39667,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20114\/revisions\/39667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}