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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;72:541
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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^a Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St—BUL 119, Boston, MA 02114-2696, USA

e-mail: vlahakes.gus@mgh.harvard.edu

Providing patients the benefits of mitral valve repair demands surgical ingenuity. Achieving durable reconstruction for anterior leaflet prolapse has been especially challenging. Recent studies have suggested that chordal transfer, using structures readily at hand, may be optimal for such repair. Timek and associates have demonstrated that in the normal heart, cutting . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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