Case Study Echo Valve Analysis - A Surgeon’s View With over 2,000 Mitral Valve Repair operations undertaken by the NHS every year, there is a growing interest among surgeons to be able to identify and interpret the relevant ultrasound views for themselves during this surgical procedure. At the recent Edwards Lifesciences sponsored conference held at the Hospital Clinic Barcelona titled ‘Fundamentals of Mitral and Tricuspid Repair’, Dr. Paul Diprose, Consultant Cardiac Anaesthetist and Mr. Steve Livesey, Cardiac Surgeon from University Hospital Southampton, along with other leading international experts, facilitated the three day training programme supporting both discussions and workshops. Accelerating the learning curve “Echocardiography is a discipline that has not traditionally

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