[A physiological method of annuloplasty of the mitral valve]. / Fiziologicheskii metod annuloplastiki mitral'nogo klapana.

The work deals with an anatomo-functional substantiation of plastic repair of the mitral valve. Isolated annuloplasty was carried out in 20 patients with mitral incompetence, annuloplasty with aortic prosthetics was conducted in 13 patients. The method allows a prosthesis with a larger diameter to be used in the last named group of patients. A fatal outcome which was not connected with the operative method was encountered in 2 cases. The clinical and hemodynamic effect was good in all patients.