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Technique to avoid left ventricular outflow tract obstruction
Javier Gualis1, Mario Castaño2, Jose Manuel Martínez-Comendador2
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Complejo Asistencial Universitario de León, León, Spain javgua@hotmail.com.
Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals
|March 20, 2016
Abstract:
Preserving the subvalvular mitral valve apparatus during mitral valve replacement is extremely important to minimize progressive postoperative left ventricular remodeling and dysfunction. We describe a simple and reproducible surgical technique that prevents the complications that can occur after total mitral anterior leaflet preservation.
Keywords:
Heart valve prosthesis implantationMitral valveVentricular functionVentricular outflow obstructionleft
