TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 41. Mitral Valve Repair
A1  - Chen, Frederick Y.
A1  - Cohn, Lawrence H.
A2  - Cohn, Lawrence H.
PY  - 2012
T2  - Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 4e
AB  - Sir  Thomas  Lauder  Brunton,  a  Scottish  physician,  first  introduced  the  concept  of  surgical  repair  of  the  mitral  valve  in  1902.1  Twenty-one  years  later,  Elliot  Cutler,  the  future  Moseley  Professor  of  Surgery  at  the  Peter  Bent  Brigham  Hospital  in  Boston,  performed  the  world's  first  successful  mitral  valve  operation  in  1923  by  carrying  out  a  transventricular  commissurotomy  with  a  neurosurgical  tenotomy  knife.  A  new  era  in  surgery  was  introduced  as  well  as  the  reality  of  mitral  valve  repair.2  Cutler  had  worked  assiduously  on  this  problem  in  the  Surgical  Research  Laboratories  of  Harvard  Medical  School  before  turning  his  attention  to  a  critically  ill,  bed-bound  12-year-old  girl,  performing  mitral  valvulotomy  on  May  20,  1923.  With  that  seminal  operation,  the  idea  of  surgically  restoring  normal  anatomy  to  the  pathologic  mitral  valve  came  to  fruition.  Subsequent  attempts  at  transventricular  valvulotomy  with  a  cardiovalvutome  to  produce  graded  mitral  regurgitation  resulted  in  several  deaths  and  Cutler  eventually  abandoned  the  procedure.3  Of  Cutler's  contemporaries,  Henry  Souttar  of  England  performed  a  single  successful  transatrial  finger  commissurotomy  in  1925,  but  received  no  further  referrals.4  After  Souttar  there  remained  little  activity  in  mitral  valve  repair  until  Dwight  Harken,  then  the  Chief  of  Cardiothoracic  Surgery  at  the  Peter  Bent  Brigham  Hospital,  published  his  groundbreaking  series  of  valvuloplasty  patients  for  mitral  stenosis5  concomitantly  with  Charles  Bailey  in  Philadelphia.6  
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PB  - The McGraw-Hill Companies
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/20
UR  - accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55922006
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