Journal:
:the journal of tehran university heart center
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hakimeh sadeghian tehran heart center, medical sciences / university of tehran, iran.
abbasali karimi tehran heart center, medical sciences / university of tehran, iran.
mehran mahmoodian tehran heart center, medical sciences / university of tehran, iran.
hossein ahmadi tehran heart center, medical sciences / university of tehran, iran.
seyed hesameddin abbasi tehran heart center, medical sciences / university of tehran, iran.
background: this study was undertaken to compare the outcome in patients with moderate to severe ischemic mitral regurgitation (imr) undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) with either mitral valve repair or mitral valve replacement. methods: between march 2002 and february 2005, 49 consecutive patients (mean age: 62.84±8.42 years; mean euroscore: 10.03±3.12) with coronary artery dise...