Severe functional mitral regurgitation arising from isolated annular dilatation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1343-1345

  Kilic, Arman ^a   Schwartzman, David S ^b   Subramaniam, Kathirvel ^b   Zenati, Marco A ^a  

^a Division of Cardiac Surgery Heart Lung and Esophageal Surgery Institute ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; THORAX PAIN; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPLICATION; HEART ATRIUM; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HEART ATRIA; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 77957134852     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.03.026     Document Type: Article

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