RT Book, Section A1 Kaneko, Tsuyoshi A1 Yammine, Maroun A1 Loberman, Dan A1 Aranki, Sary A2 Cohn, Lawrence H. A2 Adams, David H. SR Print(0) ID 1144165653 T1 Mitral Valve Replacement T2 Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 5e YR 2017 FD 2017 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071844871 LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1144165653 RD 2024/04/20 AB This chapter discusses the surgical indications, operative techniques, and early and late follow-up after implantation of mechanical and bioprosthetic mitral valve devices. The valves that are discussed are those that are currently (2015) approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Figure 42-1 shows the former and current FDA-approved prosthetic mechanical mitral valve devices, including the Starr-Edwards ball-and-cage valve (historical relevance only), the Omnicarbon tilting-disk valve, the Medtronic Hall tilting-disk valve, the St. Jude Medical bileaflet valve, the Carbomedics bileaflet valve, the ATS bileaflet valve, and the On-X bileaflet valve. The FDA-approved bioprosthetic valve devices are shown in Fig. 42-2 and include the Hancock II porcine valve, the Carpentier-Edwards porcine valve, the Carpentier-Edwards pericardial valve, the Mosaic porcine valve, and the Biocor porcine valve.