Dr Anbarasu's Dairy - Mitral Valve Repair
Mitral Valve Repair and not Valve Replacement When it comes to Heart Valve Surgery, the common belief is that heart valves are usually replaced. The replacement of heart valve is done with artificial valves. It's either a Mechanical valve (aka) Metal valve or Biological valve (aka) Tissue valve. The advantage of a Mechanical valve is that, it's durability is quite good. But patients with a Mechanical valve implanted in them need to be on lifelong blood thinning tablets like Acitrom or Warfarin. Managing these blood thinning tablets is quite tough and needs very close monitoring. PT & INT test is to be done at least once in a month and the bleeding and blood clot formations due to these drugs is very high, especially in a country like ours where the uniform access to quality health care is difficult. The survival of patients with heart valve replaced is quite poor due to the anti-coagulation related complications and n...