who invented the first cardiac valve replacement
Scroll down below the mitral valve repair diagram for the answer. According to G. Wayne Miller, in King Of Hearts: The True Story Of The Man Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery, the first successful mitral valve repair surgery, a commissurotomy, was performed on June 10, 1948. So, the answer to our trivia question is B. If you are curiousâ¦ The surgery was performed by Dr. Charles P. Bailey at Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was Dr. Baileyâs fifth attempt at a mitral valve repair surgery.