Of course our own Chairman of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Dr. Cosgrove, is a pioneer of valve repair. This is especially so in young persons, for so many reasons that I can not even begin except to say that if It can be fixed, why replace it with something artificial that will require medications and reoperations, and so on. If the MV is floppy as it often is in MVProlapse, it is often just a matter of resecting the extra tissue to repair. The final decision is always, should always be, that we will try to repair and replace only if neccesary. I hope this information is useful.
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