Echocardiographic Monitoring of Cardiac Parameters after Mitral Valve Replacement with the Preservation of Subvalvular Structures

TO date many monitoring techniques have been used to determine the efficacy of surgical correction of mitral valve disease.The most common non-invasive method in use is echocardiography which can assess the myocardial and mitral valve function changes after mitral valve replacement procedures.In this study,we investigated the five-year follow-up echocardiographic results of 143 patients undergoing mitral valve replacement with preservation of subvalvuiar apparatus to analyze the recovery of myocardial and mitral valve functions.