{"id":20129,"date":"2015-11-03T12:27:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T17:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=20129"},"modified":"2019-02-26T19:04:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T00:04:44","slug":"timing-mitral-valve-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2015\/11\/03\/timing-mitral-valve-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon Q&#038;A: &#8220;When Should The Mitral Valve Be Repaired?&#8221; asks Pamela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our next &#8216;Ask Me Anything&#8217; video from the Heart Valve Summit, we&#8217;re going to answer a great question from Pamela. In her Facebook post, Pamela asks, &#8220;When should the mitral valve be repaired?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To answer Pamela&#8217;s question, I was very fortunate to connect with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Marc-Gillinov-Cleveland-Ohio.php\">Dr. Marc Gillinov<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/hospital\/cleveland-clinic-microsite\">Cleveland Clinic<\/a>. So you know, Dr. Gillinov is a valve guru having performed over 5,000 heart valve procedures during his career. Dr. Gillinov is also the co-author of Heart 411. And, Dr. Gillinov has successfully treated over 100 patients from our community! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Here are the highlights from my conversation with Dr. Gillinov:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gREahMg06NQ\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Many thanks to Pamela for her question! And, a special thanks to Dr. Marc Gillinov for sharing his clinical experiences and research with our patient and caregiver community.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Marc-Gillinov-Cleveland-Ohio.php\">See Dr. Gillinov&#8217;s Interactive Surgeon Profile.<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/hospital\/cleveland-clinic-microsite\">Check out the Cleveland Clinic Heart Valve Microsite.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">P.S. For the hearing impaired members of our community, I have posted a written transcript of my video with \u00a0Dr. Gillinov below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Adam: Hi everybody, it\u2019s Adam with heartvalvesurgery.com. We\u2019re back at the Heart Valve Summit with Dr. Marc Gillinov from the Cleveland Clinic and we\u2019re answering your questions that were submitted at our Facebook page. This question, Dr. Gillinov, comes in from Pamela Howard and she asks when do mitral valves need to be repaired?<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Marc Gillinov: Pamela that is a great question. The answer is this: if you have a big leak \u2013 what we call severe regurgitation, get it fixed now. The rational for that is simple, early repair is best. Because the valve is broken, it\u2019s not going to fix itself and eventually, it\u2019s going to cause heart damage. Keep point here. If you have a valve that leaks a lot \u2013 severe mitral regurgitation \u2013 get it fixed soon. No benefit to waiting and some risk to wait.<\/p>\n<p>Adam: \u00a0Dr. Gillinov, as always, thanks for your great care of the patients in our community, and thanks for all your support of our community at heartvalvesurgery.com. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Marc Gillinov: My pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20129","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\/20129","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=20129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}