%0 Journal Article %T Surgical Techniques for Mitral Valve Repair: A Pathoanatomic Grading System %A Chris C. Cook %A Harold G. Roberts %A Lawrence M. Wei %A Mohammed Alreshidan %A Muhammad Salman %A Robert D. Herron %A Vinay Badhwar %J Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia %@ 1940-5596 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/1089253218815465 %X Mitral valve surgery has evolved over 4 decades from one based on the principles of prosthetic replacement to a subspecialty with a foundation based on the principles of repair. This review will attempt to enumerate the contemporary techniques of mitral valve repair and a pathoanatomically directed approach with which to apply them by focusing on degenerative disease and associated complexities %K cardiac surgery %K mitral valve %K transesophageal echocardiography %K intraoperative assessment %K cardiac anesthesia %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1089253218815465