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Ann Thorac Surg 2007;83:1919-1920
© 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

The Mechanisms of Chronic Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

Marc A. Radermecker, MD, PhDa, Patrizzio Lancellotti, MD, PhDb

a Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, CHU Sart-Tilman, University of Liège, Liège, 4000 Belgium
b Department of Cardiology, CHU Sart-Tilman, University of Liège, Liège, 4000 Belgium

(Email: mradermecker@chu.ulg.ac.be).

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To the Editor:

In their practical review of ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR), Borger and colleagues [1] have rightly emphasized the heterogeneity of clinical conditions confounding the study of "true chronic IMR." They appropriately suggest restricting the use of the terms "chronic IMR" to a condition in which mitral regurgitation occurs more than 1 week after myocardial infarction and is associated to one or more segmental wall motion . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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