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Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm and mitral valve regurgitation. Conservative surgical therapy
R De Paulis1, J Zeitani, G Bognolo
1University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
|December 22, 1999
Abstract:
A patient with posterolateral left ventricular pseudoaneurysm, severe mitral regurgitation and coronary artery disease is reported. Mitral valve insufficiency was almost completely cured by simple closure of the left ventricular defect by edge to edge apposition along the long axis of the heart.