{"id":270,"date":"2007-11-24T12:17:29","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T17:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/11\/24\/how-many-mitral-valve-operations-performed-each-year\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:46:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:46:36","slug":"how-many-mitral-valve-operations-performed-each-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/11\/24\/how-many-mitral-valve-operations-performed-each-year\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Mitral Valve Operations Performed Each Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the typical thoughts which appear for patients diagnosed with a severe heart valve disease diagnosis is that of… loneliness. As a heart valve patient wrote me recently, “I feel so alone.”<\/p>\n

Heart valve surgery can trigger scary and isolated thoughts – for both patients and caregivers. Personally, I remember that lonely feeling when I was diagnosed with aortic stenosis which lead to my Ross Procedure (double valve replacement)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This thought rattled around in my head, “I do not know anyone who has had aortic valve replacement. Hmmm. This must be a very dangerous operation.”<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, that fear can and should be managed when evaluating the realities of cardiac surgery…<\/p>\n

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While cardiac surgery is more risky and less prevalent than having a wart removed, reports suggest that (i) many people have heart valve surgery and (ii) most people live a longer life as a result of heart surgery (See “Life Expectancy After Heart Valve Surgery”<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Recently, I located some interesting information on the number of aortic valve replacement surgeries performed each year<\/a>. That discussion, along with other thoughts on how to dispel the fear of heart valve surgery, have resulted in this question… “How Many Mitral Valve Operations Are Performed Each Year?”<\/p>\n

Reports suggest a wide range of data on the number of mitral valve operations (mitral valve repair and mitral valve replacement) performed each year. However, a recent study by medical editor Marilyn Brooks suggests that, on average, over 40,000 mitral valve operations are performed annually in the United States alone. Leaking heart valve symptoms<\/a> are the cause of many heart valve repair and replacement operations for Americans.<\/p>\n

That is a lot of mitral valve surgery, right? Maybe. But consider… Looking forward, that number will probably increase given the success of minimally invasive procedures – including catheter-based approaches to cardiac surgery.<\/p>\n

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Recently, I attended a Cedar-Sinai Cardiac Surgery Conference here in Los Angeles, California. One of the presentations was about the success of noninvasive heart surgery on high-risk patients (overweight, alcoholic, etc.).<\/p>\n

The results were very encouraging. That said, the likelihood of annual mitral valve operations<\/em> and other heart valve operations will increase – especially, when you consider the baby boom generation (76 million) is getting older.<\/p>\n

According to research from Celent, the baby boomers are now retiring. As a result, there will be 30 million new retirees by 2020. They will need new reading glasses, new canes, new wheelchairs and… new heart valves.<\/p>\n

I hope this helps explain more about the number of mitral valve operations performed each year.<\/p>\n

Keep on tickin!
\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/270","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=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}