The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 131, Issue 3 , Pages 565-573.e2 , March 2006

Is a good perioperative echocardiographic result predictive of durability in ischemic mitral valve repair?

Read at the Eighty-fifth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, San Francisco, Calif, April 10-13, 2005.

Received 7 July 2005 ,Revised 10 October 2005 ,Accepted 20 October 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.09.037

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 131, Issue 3 , Pages 565-573.e2 , March 2006

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