Clinical outcomes of mitral valve repair with the Colvin-Galloway Future Band: a single-center experience.

Objectives: In 2001, a semirigid band (Colvin-Galloway Future Band, Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) for mitral valve repair came onto the market. We report our experience of the correction of all types of mitral regurgitation using this device.

Staphylococcal postoperative subannular left ventricular false aneurysm.

A 37-year-old male with acute complicated methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus mitral valve endocarditis underwent urgent valve replacement with a bileaflet prosthesis. The postoperative course was complicated with fever and heart failure. Echocardiography showed a large subannular false aneurysm of the left ventricle.