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Clinical impact of the repair technique for posterior mitral leaflet prolapse: Resect or respect?

Taichi SakaguchiArudo HiraokaToshinori TotsugawaAkihiro HayashidaMasaaki RyomotoNaosumi SekiyaGenta ChikazawaHidenori Yoshitaka
Published in: Journal of cardiac surgery (2021)
The respect approach allowed for a lower MV gradient and a larger EOA than the resection approach, which is possibly due to the capability of implanting a larger annuloplasty ring.
Keyphrases
  • mitral valve
  • left atrial
  • left ventricular
  • heart failure
  • aortic valve
  • atrial fibrillation
  • aortic stenosis