Surgery of secondary mitral insufficiency in patients with impaired left ventricular function

BACKGROUND: Secondary mitral insufficiency (SMI) is an indicator of a poor prognosis in patients with ischemic and dilated cardiomyopathies. Numerous studies corroborated that mitral valve (MV) surgery improves survival and may be an alternative to heart transplantation in this group of patients. Th...

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Autores principales: Rukosujew, Andreas, Klotz, Stefan, Welp, Henryk, Bruch, Christian, Ghezelbash, Farshad, Schmidt, Christoph, Weber, Raluca, Hoffmeier, Andreas, Sindermann, Jürgen, Scheld, Hans H
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2721830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19607730
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-36

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2721830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19607730
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-36

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