Influence of involvement of anterior leaflet versus posterior leaflet on residual regurgitation as assessed by transesophageal echocardiography in patients undergoing valve repair for mitral regurgitation due to mitral valve prolapse

BACKGROUND: Repair of anterior leaflet prolapse is technically more challenging and this might influence outcomes as compared to the repair of posterior leaflet prolapse in patients undergoing surgical correction of mitral regurgitation. We investigated the association of anterior leaflet prolapse w...

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Autores principales: Sulcaj, Laureta, Rizza, Antonio, Glauber, Mattia, Trianni, Giuseppe, Palmieri, Cataldo, Ravani, Marcello, Dibra, Alban, Maffei, Stefano, Berti, Sergio
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2784438/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19922602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-7-54

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2784438/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19922602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-7-54

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