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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;71:1152-1153
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited commentary

Steven F. Bolling, MDa

a Section of Cardiac Surgery, The University of Michigan Hospitals, 1500 E Medical Center Dr, 2120D Taubman Center, Box 0344, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

e-mail: sbolling@umich.edu

Doctor Calafiore and associates should be congratulated for the results of their series summarized in this manuscript. In this series, they retrospectively analyzed the results of mitral valve surgery in 49 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy over a ten-year period. Their results were quite good with a 30-day mortality of 4% and a 5- and 10-year actuarial survival of 78% and 73%, respectively. The patients also had an improvement in their New York Heart Association heart failure classification. It should be cautioned that this group of patients had a mean preoperative ejection fraction of 27%, which is higher than has been reported in other series of mitral surgery for dilated cardiomyopathies. The authors rightly . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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