HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SURGICAL TREATMENT OF MITRAL HEART DEFECT (literature review)

This article analyzes the history of the development of surgical treatment of mitral valve (MV) defects, starting from the very first method of mitral commissurotomy to modern methods of endovascular correction of the defect. In the work of various authors, the positive and negative aspects of each method are given, various complications and reasons for unsatisfactory results are described. Despite more than half a century of world experience in performing operations on the MV of the heart, according to the analysis, nevertheless, the main method of surgical treatment of MV defects is the replacement with an artificial heart valve while maintaining ventricular-valvular continuity.