Ring Around Heart Valve

It acts like a belt supporting the valve and bringing the leaflets together.

Ring around heart valve. Vascular ring occurs very early during the baby s development in the womb. A small cut is made in your groin and the clip is pushed up to your heart through a thin tube. As a result blood can leak backward through the valve. The surgeon may tighten or reinforce the ring around a valve annulus by implanting an artificial ring annuloplasty band.

This may occur when the heart is enlarged or if you have a leaky valve. The tmvir procedure is used to treat either a leaky or tight mitral valve that has had a prior placed mitral valve repair with placement of a mitral valve ring. Surgeons may often tighten or reinforce the ring around a valve annulus by implanting an artificial ring. The condition occurs as often in males as females.

To repair a valve surgeons may separate valve flaps leaflets or cusps that have fused replace the cords that support the valve remove excess valve tissue so that the leaflets or cusps can close tightly or patch holes in a valve. Normal heart and heart with vascular ring vascular rings are malformations of the aortic arch in the main blood vessel that leads from the heart aorta that partly or completely encircle the windpipe trachea or the tube that leads from your mouth to your stomach esophagus or both. True or complete vascular ring refers to conditions in which abnormal vessels form a complete circle around the trachea the breathing tube that carries air to and from the lungs and esophagus the tube that carries food to the stomach. The ring may be made of tissue cloth or metal with a clot covering.

A special ring is put around the valve to make it close right. It can cause breathing problems and feeding problems in infants and children. Vascular ring is rare. It accounts for less than 1 of all congenital heart problems.

When the ring is widened the valve flaps attached to the ring may not open and close correctly. Your doctor may often recommend heart valve repair when possible as it preserves your heart valve and may preserve heart function. During some types of mitral valve repair an annuloplasty ring is used to support the mitral annulus and maintain an appropriate diameter of the heart valve opening. A transcatheter mitral valve in ring procedure also known as tmvir is when a transcatheter valve is placed in to an existing surgically implanted mitral ring to treat a failing mitral valve repair.

Why you may be wondering. Some infants with vascular ring also have another congenital heart problem.