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Alain Carpentier
Alain Carpentier, born 1933 in Toulouse, is a French cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered mitral valve repair, developed tissue heart valves, and invented the Carmat artificial heart.
Annuloplasty
Annuloplasty, including tricuspid annuloplasty, is a cardiac surgical technique that narrows a dilated heart valve annulus with a prosthetic ring or band, restoring leaflet coaptation to correct valve regurgitation.
Aortic valvuloplasty
Aortic valvuloplasty, also known as balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV), is a catheter-based procedure that dilates a narrowed aortic valve with an inflated balloon, relieving aortic stenosis without open surgery.
Balloon valvuloplasty
Balloon valvuloplasty is a catheter procedure that inflates a balloon across a narrowed heart valve to widen it, first-line for pulmonary and rheumatic mitral stenosis.
Commissurotomy
Commissurotomy, also known as mitral commissurotomy, is a surgical or catheter-based procedure that splits the fused leaflets of a stenotic heart valve, most often the rheumatic mitral valve, to restore blood flow.
Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation
Heart valve prosthesis implantation replaces diseased native valves with mechanical or bioprosthetic devices, surgically since 1952 and by transcatheter methods (TAVI/TAVR) since the early 2000s, with anticoagulation and durability trade-offs.
Isolated tricuspid valve surgery
Isolated tricuspid valve surgery is an uncommon cardiac operation on the tricuspid valve alone, about 20% of tricuspid surgeries, with roughly 9% operative mortality and higher early mortality than combined procedures.
Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery
Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery (MIMVS) repairs or replaces the mitral valve through a small right chest incision rather than a full sternotomy, pioneered in the 1990s.
Mitral valve replacement
Mitral valve replacement is a cardiac surgery in which a diseased mitral valve is replaced with a mechanical or biological prosthesis, chosen when durable repair is unlikely.
Ozaki procedure
The Ozaki procedure, also called aortic valve neocuspidization (AvNeo), is a cardiac operation that rebuilds the aortic valve from the patient's own pericardium, developed by Shigeyuki Ozaki in 2007.
Percutaneous mitral valve repair
Percutaneous mitral valve repair, in practice transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER), is a catheter-based procedure that clips the mitral leaflets together to reduce leaking without open-heart surgery.
Pulmonary valve implantation
Pulmonary valve implantation is a catheter-based procedure placing a replacement valve in the pulmonary position, treating congenital heart disease; the first human implant was in 2000.
Pulmonary valve replacement
Pulmonary valve replacement (PVR) is a surgical or catheter-based procedure replacing a diseased pulmonary valve, most often in congenital heart disease involving the right ventricular outflow tract.
Ring annuloplasty
Ring annuloplasty is a valve repair operation in which a prosthetic ring is sutured around the mitral or tricuspid valve annulus to restore its normal size and shape.
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), also called TAVI, is a minimally invasive procedure that implants an aortic valve via catheter to treat severe aortic stenosis.
Transcatheter mitral valve implantation
Transcatheter mitral valve implantation (TMVI), also called transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR), is a minimally invasive catheter procedure replacing the mitral valve, first performed in 2012, for patients unsuitable for surgery.
Transcatheter mitral valve repair
Transcatheter mitral valve repair, also called mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER), is a minimally invasive procedure that clips the mitral leaflets together to reduce severe regurgitation without open-heart surgery.
Transcatheter mitral valve replacement
Transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) is a minimally invasive procedure that implants a prosthetic mitral valve through a catheter, treating severe regurgitation in patients unsuitable for surgery or TEER.
Transcatheter tricuspid valve repair
Transcatheter tricuspid valve repair, or T-TEER, is a catheter-based procedure that clips tricuspid valve leaflets together to reduce severe regurgitation, delivered through a vein without open surgery.
Tricuspid valve replacement
Tricuspid valve replacement is a cardiac surgery procedure in which a diseased tricuspid valve is replaced with a prosthetic valve, used only when repair is not feasible or has failed.
Valve replacement surgery
Valve replacement surgery replaces a diseased heart valve, most often the aortic valve, with a mechanical or biological prosthesis; the first aortic replacement was reported in 1960.
Valvotomy
Valvotomy is a surgical or catheter-based procedure that incises or dilates a narrowed heart valve to enlarge its orifice and restore blood flow, first-line treatment for severe rheumatic mitral stenosis.
Valvuloplasty
Valvuloplasty is a catheter-based or surgical procedure that widens a narrowed heart valve by splitting fused tissue, used mainly for rheumatic mitral stenosis and congenital pulmonary or aortic stenosis.