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Is repair preferable to replacement for ischemic mitral regurgitation?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery · 2001 · Vol. 122(6) · pp. 1125–1141

A. Marc Gillinov✉(Cleveland Clinic)Per Nils Wierup(Cleveland Foundation)Eugene H. Blackstone(Cleveland Foundation)Ehab Bishay(Cancer Research And Biostatistics)Delos M. Cosgrove(Cleveland Clinic)Jennifer White(Cancer Research And Biostatistics)Bruce W. Lytle(Cleveland Clinic)Patrick M. McCarthy(Cleveland Foundation)

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Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair Cardiovascular Function and Risk FactorsMedicineMitral valve repairMitral regurgitationCardiologyInternal medicineHazard ratioSurgeryMitral valveMitral valve replacementValve replacement

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AgedCoronary Artery BypassFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansMaleMitral ValveMitral Valve InsufficiencyRisk FactorsTime FactorsMultivariate AnalysisSurvival AnalysisRisk AssessmentHeart Valve Prosthesis Implantation

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