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Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery With or Without Mitral Valve Annuloplasty in Moderate Functional Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation
Author(s) -
K.M. John Chan,
Prakash P Punjabi,
Marcus Flather,
Riccardo Wage,
Karen Symmonds,
Isabelle Roussin,
Shelley Rahman-Haley,
Dudley J. Pennell,
Philip J. Kilner,
Gilles Dreyfus,
John Pepper
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.112.143818
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , mitral valve annuloplasty , functional mitral regurgitation , mitral regurgitation , artery , mitral valve , coronary artery bypass surgery , mitral valve repair , heart failure , ejection fraction
The role of mitral valve repair (MVR) during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in patients with moderate ischemic mitral regurgitation (MR) is uncertain. We conducted a randomized, controlled trial to determine whether repairing the mitral valve during CABG may improve functional capacity and left ventricular reverse remodeling compared with CABG alone.

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