[Comparative assessment of immediate results of mitral valve repair according to the classical technique with posterior leaflet preservation].

We comparatively assessed the results of mitral valve repair according to the classical technique either with complete removal of leaflets or with the preservation of the posterior leaflet and the chordal-papillary apparatus. Depending on the variant of the operation, all patients were divided into two groups. Group One consisted of 23 patients in whom the posterior leaflet with the chordal-papillary apparatus was preserved, and Group Two comprised 23 patients in whom the mitral valve was removed completely.

[Surgical therapeutic decision-making in elderly patients with heart valvular defects combined with lesions of coronary and brachiocephalic arteries].

Due to considerable incidence of combined cardiac and vascular pathology in elderly and aged patients with heart valve defects, of special importance is the problem regarding surgical therapeutic decision-making. The present article is aimed at considering the problems concerning possibility and feasibility of stagewise or simultaneous surgical correction in patients diagnosed as having cardiac valve defect and haemodynamically significant lesions of coronary and/or brachiocephalic arteries based on generalizing the results of international studies.

[Surgical treatment of mitral and tricuspid valve defects].

The results of surgical treatment of 265 patients with mitral-tricuspid valvular diseases are analysed. The operations were carried out in the period from Jan. 1, 1977 to Jan.