medical Definition of annuloplasty
plural annuloplasties
: surgical treatment of a ringlike anatomical part;
specifically
: surgical repair of a heart valve that typically involves reducing the diameter of the valve's fibrous ring
- Severe tricuspid regurgitation should clearly be repaired because it has been widely demonstrated that annuloplasty provides excellent late results with little added morbidity.
- —Charles F. Schwartz et al., in Schwartz's Manual of Surgery, 2006
