Assessment of regional myocardial wall stress before and after surgical correction of functional ischaemic mitral regurgitation using multidetector computed tomography and novel software system☆☆☆

The objective of this study was to assess changes in left ventricular (LV) volume, function and regional myocardial wall stress in non-infarcted segments following restrictive mitral annuloplasty (RMA) in patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) and severe functional mitral regurgitation (MR).