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Repairing the degenerative anterior mitral leaflet
J M Alvarez1, N Teoh, C W Deal
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|December 1, 1992
Abstract:
This is a consecutive, nonselected series of 18 patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation requiring a reparative operation on the anterior mitral leaflet. A new technique of double-breasting the two leaflets when flail septal segments are encountered is introduced.