Why the study?
A major challenge in the development of heart transplantation in Ukraine is a limited donor pool.
Case Report (n=1)
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Mitral valve repair can be successfully performed in the early postoperative period after orthotopic heart transplantation to treat severe mitral regurgitation caused by donor-recipient atrial size mismatch.
Today, heart transplantation is a gold standard treatment of the terminal chronic heart failure. Despite the constant improvement of the technique of this operation and the emergence of new protocols of immunosuppressive therapy, one of the main problems in the development of heart transplantation in Ukraine is a limited donor pool. The article presents a clinical case of successful orthotopic heart transplantation, followed by mitral valve repair in the early postoperative period. Our experience shows that mitral valve repair after orthotopic heart transplantation provides good results in the medium term, and this type of intervention can potentially expand the donor pool, thus increasing the number of heart transplants.
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Тодуров et al. (2021) conducted a case report in Chronic heart failure, post-transplant mitral regurgitation (n=1). Mitral valve repair (annuloplasty ring) after orthotopic heart transplantation was evaluated on Reduction of mitral regurgitation and clinical stabilization.
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