Surgical left ventricle remodeling to treat functional mitral valve regurgitation

Abstract

A left ventricular aneurysm complicates an acute myocardial infarction in 4-20% of patients. The loss of the physiological geometry of the ventricle can lead to a dislocation of the papillary muscles with subsequential mitral valve regurgitation. The goal of this case report is to demonstrate that a proper operation to restore the left ventricular anatomy can be a feasible procedure to correct functional mitral regurgitation.

Keywords: Aneurysm repair; Left ventricular aneurysm; Mitral regurgitation; Mitral valve repair; Myocardial infarction.