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No, not ordinarily. For significant valvular disorders, surgery is usually required.

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Yes. It can be replaced.

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What are the possible complications of heart valve repair?

As with any invasive surgical procedure, hemorrhage, infarction, stroke, heart attack, and infection are all possible complications of heart valve repair.


What is the term for surgical repair of a heart valve?

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What procedure requires an incision to be in the actual heart?

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What is the purpose of heart valve repair?

To correct damage to the mitral, aortic, pulmonary, or tricuspid heart valves caused by a systemic infection, endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, a congenital heart defect, or mitral and/or aortic valve disease.


Repair toilet cistern inlet stopvalve?

This question is vague as what is needed is whether it is the inlet stopvalve, the inlet valve itself or flushing valve.


What is the most common surgical procedure used to repair the aorta of a Marfan syndrome patient?

As of 2000, the most common surgical treatment involves replacing the patient's aortic valve and several inches of the aorta itself with a composite graft, which is a prosthetic heart valve sewn into one end of a Dacron tube.


What type of medical prodedure uses a plastic valve?

Plastic valves are often used in surgical procedures involving the heart. Heart valve surgery is used to replace or repair diseased heart valves. Artificial valves last around 8-20 years.


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What Heart valve in back of the heart?

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