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Ann Thorac Surg 2000;70:776-777
© 2000 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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DR W. RANDOLPH CHITWOOD (Greenville, NC): I know this is a very exciting and interesting paper and I am very impressed by your results. I find it very interesting, and have several questions. You did 88 repairs using this papillary-shortening technique, and I believe this is in 559 patients who had mitral reconstruction. Is that correct?

DR FASOL: That is right.

DR CHITWOOD: Therefore, about a fifth of your patients had ischemic mitral insufficiency requiring shortening. I must say that I am impressed by the number of elongated papillary muscles in Germany. I do a lot of valve repairs. The most common cause of ischemic mitral insufficiency, at least in my experience, is restrictive insufficiency . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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