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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

Invited Commentary

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg – Campus St. Jan, Schiepse Bos 6, Genk 3600, Belgium

(Email: robert.dion@zol.be).

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The authors [1] conclude that intrinsic mitral valve (MV) pathology is frequently observed in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and that durable repair is feasible in only approximately half of the patients. I would add that this is only done by experienced surgeons, indeed, as a prosthetic valve has no systolic anterior motion (SAM) of the mitral coaptation line, and the authors have not been able to demonstrate a difference in survival between repair and replacement.

Their analysis identified 6 nonmutually exclusive groups, but why is a "long-leaflets group" different from the degenerative and myxomatous ones? Also, I hardly distinguished . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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