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Background Recent evidence has showed us that quality of mitral valve repair is strongly related to volume. However, this study shows how low-volume centers can achieve results in mitral valve repair surgery comparable to those reported by referral ...
Manuel Giraldo-Grueso +4 more
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Objective: Surgical risk and long-term outcomes when re-crossclamp is required during degenerative mitral valve repair are unknown. We examined the outcomes of patients who required re-crossclamp for mitral valve reintervention.
Catherine M. Wagner, MD +6 more
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Does right thoracotomy increase the risk of mitral valve reoperation? [PDF]
ObjectiveThe study objective was to determine whether a right thoracotomy approach increases the risk of mitral valve reoperation.MethodsBetween January of 1993 and January of 2004, 2469 patients with mitral valve disease underwent 2570 reoperations ...
Lars G. Svensson +23 more
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The results of transcatheter mitral valve replacement
Mitral insufficiency is one of the most common valvular pathology. In almost half of the patients, standard mitral valve replacement using extracorporeal circulation cannot be used due to the high risk of complications. In recent years, for this category
R. M. Sharifulin +5 more
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Mitral Valve Surgery for Rheumatic Lesions in Young Patients [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The appropriateness of rheumatic mitral valve repair remains controversial due to the risks of recurrent mitral dysfunction and need for reoperation.
Banazol, N +8 more
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Key clinical message Left ventricular apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with an apical aneurysm carries a risk of thrombosis and can also lead to atrial fibrillation and functional mitral regurgitation.
Hironobu Nishiori +3 more
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Does preservation of the sub-valvular apparatus during mitral valve replacement affect long-term survival and quality of life? A Microsimulation Study [PDF]
RIGHTS : This article is licensed under the BioMed Central licence at http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/license which is similar to the 'Creative Commons Attribution Licence'.
Athanasiou, Thanos +8 more
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Cardiac papillary fibroelastomas: A 10-year single-center surgical experience and long-term echocardiographic follow-up study [PDF]
Aims. Limited contemporary data are available on the clinical and echocardiographic outcomes after surgery for cardiac papillary fibroelastoma (CPF). The aim of this study was to review the clinical manifestations, pathological characteristics, surgical ...
Brát, Radim +3 more
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The approach of implanting aortic sutureless valve inside the calcific homograft is suitable in redo surgery especially if associated with mitral valve surgery. Aortic valve replacement in patients who have undergone previous aortic root replacement with
A. attia +4 more
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Mitral regurgitation (MR) associated with mitral annular calcification (MAC) is surgically challenging, and valve-in-MAC procedures using transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) devices have poor outcomes.
Alicja Zientara, MD +3 more
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