Surgical treatment of mitral regurgitation

Surgical approach is a method of choice in treatment of significant MiR. Mitral repair is preferred operation and its results are excellent provided that proper technique is tailored for the specific patient including miniinvasive approach. Since ischemic etiology is quite frequent coronary artery bypass grafting is common concomitant procedure. Tricuspid valve repair or MAZE belong to other common concomitant procedures. If complex combined procedure is necessary more frequent occurrence of cardiac and extra cardiac complications should be taken into account.