Opening Remarks
Paolo Biglioli, Enrico Caiani
Biological and Histopathological Basis of Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease
Alessandro Parolari
Mitral Valve Repair and Annuloplasty: a Surgical Perspective
Francesco Alamanni
Animal Studies for Evaluation of MV Dynamics
Neil Ingels
New Tools for Quantitative Assessment of MV
Enrico Caiani, Cristiana Corsi
Left Ventricular and Left Atrial Remodeling after MV repair
Francesco Maffessanti, Mauro Pepi
Surgical Experience of Annuloplasty at CCM
Marco Zanobini
Evaluation of Different Rings by MV Dynamics
Enrico Caiani
MV Finite Element Modeling from Human In-vivo Data
Emiliano Votta
Results from Animal Studies
Neil Ingels
