Valve Repair

A valve repair is more complicated surgery than a valve replace, but the advantage is that patients retain their own valve. And in young patients, the repaired valve grows with the child as he or she gets older.

Pediatric and congenital heart surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital have published extensively on pediatric heart valve surgery and have pioneered many of the valvuloplasty techniques used today to repair conditions such as:

• Ebstein’s anomaly • aortic valve disease

• congenital mitral valve disease Our pediatric heart surgeons have pioneered

many of the innovative

surgical techniques used today to treat heart valve disease in children

Cone repair for Ebstein’s malformation