In this episode I visit with Dr. Chris Burke from the University of Washington to discuss aortic valve repair. Dr. Burke is a cardiac surgeon with an interest in complex aorta and aortic valve surgery. He provides useful insights into the evaluation of aortic valve disease and what patients may be good candidates for repair. We discuss this in the relation to aortic valve replacement and the Ross procedure.

Link to UW Multi-disciplinary Thoracic Aorta Program

Better, together.

Links for further reading:

State of the Art Review European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery 2018

Bicuspid aortic valve repair: outcomes after 17 years of experience

I am joined by Shreyas Venkataraman, MD, an internal medicine resident at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St Louis to continue our physical exam series. In this episode we talk about mitral regurgitation and the associated physical exam findings that help increase (or decrease) your likelihood of MR.

Links:

Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis

The Correlates of an Abnormal First Heart Sound in Mitral-Valve-Prolapse Syndromes