{"id":531,"date":"2008-08-27T08:45:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T13:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/08\/27\/on-x-for-mitral-valve-replacement\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:40:05","slug":"on-x-for-mitral-valve-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/08\/27\/on-x-for-mitral-valve-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;On-X For Mitral Heart Valve Replacement?&#8221; Asks Vivian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vivan has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/mitral-valve-regurgitation-symptoms-leaking.php\">severe mitral regurgitation<\/a> and is preparing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/mitral-valve-replacement-surgery.php\">mitral valve replacement operation<\/a>. She is currently considering several different valve types including tissue valves and mechanical valve. Vivian&#8217;s question to me is, &#8220;Adam &#8211; Can you tell me about the On-X valve for mitral valve replacement?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/on-x-mitral-valve.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"200\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who are not familiar with the On-X heart valve device for mitral replacement, here is some basic information for you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On-X was founded in 1994 and is located in Austin, Texas. The company was later purchased by <a href=\"https:\/\/artivion.com\/\">Artivion<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The On-X mitral valve is a carbon bileaflet heart valve prosthesis.<\/li>\n<li>According to the Artivion website, the primary focus of the <a href=\"https:\/\/artivion.com\/product\/on-x-mitral-heart-valve\/\">On-X mechanical valve replacement<\/a> is that it was engineered for exceptional clinical performance, has optimal hemodynamics (mean gradients \u2264 4.4 mmHG across all valve sizes \u2265 25 mm reducing risk of PPM and has optimal length and leaflet guards designed to conceal pledgets, reduce risk of pannus and provide complete annular support when retaining subvalvular structure.<\/li>\n<li>According to the company, over 50,000 On-X valves have been implanted since 1996.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope this give you some background on the On-X mechanical valve for mitral replacement surgery. Over the years, I have spoken with many patients that are happy with their selection of the On-X mitral valve. If you have an On-X replacement valve, please scroll below to leave a comment!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2016\/01\/13\/coach-fred-hoiberg-patient-success\/\">Chicago Bulls Coach, Fred Hoiberg, Talk About His On-X Mechanical Valve<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2015\/03\/02\/mechanical-valve-ticking-clicking\/\">Video: Can You Hear Linda&#8217;s Mechanical On-X Valve Click?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/mechanical-prosthetic-heart-valve.php\">Mechanical Heart Valve Replacements<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/coumadin-therapy-valve-replacement.php\">Coumadin Therapy for Mechanical Valve Patients<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heart-valve-replacement"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","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=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41140,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/41140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}