Have We Found the Surgical Solution for Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation?
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Have we found the surgical solution for ischemic mitral regurgitation?
The article by deVarennes et al in the current issue of Circulation details the outcomes in 44 patients with severe (4 ) Carpentier type IIIb ischemic mitral regurgitation undergoing mitral valve repair consisting of posterior leaflet extension with bovine pericardium, coupled with remodeling annuloplasty, with or without coronary revascularization.1 Dissatisfied with the long-term results of a...
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Case presentation: A 62-year-old man visited his cardiologist describing a 6-month history of increasing fatigue and shortness of breath on exertion. His medical history included an inferoposterior myocardial infarction (MI) 3 years previously that was treated with drug-eluting stents to his left circumflex and right coronary arteries. The result of physical examination was remarkable for crack...
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BACKGROUND Ischemic mitral regurgitation is associated with increased mortality and morbidity. For surgical patients with moderate regurgitation, the benefits of adding mitral-valve repair to coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) are uncertain. METHODS We randomly assigned 301 patients with moderate ischemic mitral regurgitation to CABG alone or CABG plus mitral-valve repair (combined proced...
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OBJECTIVE To summarize the experience in surgical technique and clinical results of treating ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR). METHODS From April 1998 to September 2004 fifty-three IMR patients, 8 with mild-moderate IMR, 24 with moderate IMR, and 21 with severe IMR, underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) combined with mitral valvuloplasty (MVP, n = 33) or mitral valve replacement...
متن کاملSurgical treatment of ischemic mitral valve regurgitation.
In cases of old myocardial infarction, the presence of mitral valve regurgitation is one of the predicting factors of long-term prognosis. The mechanism of ischemic mitral regurgitation consists of mitral annular dilatation, left ventricular (LV) dilatation followed by tethering of the mitral valve, etc. Since long-term prognosis of the patients in whom the degree of mitral valve regurgitation ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.109.863324