Is mitral valve prolapse a major surgery?

Mitral valve prolapse is not a major surgery. Patients with mitral valve prolapse usually have problems with the mitral valve, mostly due to degeneration of the leaflets and rupture of the tendon cords. The main surgical treatment for mitral valve prolapse is mitral valvuloplasty. This is not the most difficult or complex procedure in cardiac surgery, but it requires a relatively high degree of surgical skill. After mitral valve prolapse surgery, mitral valve replacement can be avoided, reducing the need for long-term postoperative anticoagulation, which can lead to various complications, such as bleeding due to over-anticoagulation and thrombosis due to under-anticoagulation. Therefore, after mitral valve prolapse surgery, the valve is still the patient’s own valve, and the function of this valve is better. The patient’s postoperative quality of life is also higher, so as long as mitral valvuloplasty can be done, valve replacement is usually not done. In this sense, mitral valve prolapse surgery is not a complicated procedure. Patients with mitral valve prolapse do not need to be particularly nervous or anxious because the procedure has been performed in our country for many years and can be performed in general at provincial hospitals. Of course, there are several large heart centers in China that perform this surgery in more cases. Therefore, mitral valve surgery is not a complicated procedure, so patients can rest assured.