The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 138, Issue 2 , Pages 286-288 , August 2009

COUNTERPOINT: Efficacy of adding mitral valve restrictive annuloplasty to coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with moderate ischemic mitral valve regurgitation

Received 23 May 2008 ,Revised 6 April 2009 ,Accepted 2 May 2009.

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 Read at the Eighty-eighth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, San Diego, Calif, May 10–14, 2008.

PII: S0022-5223(09)00694-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.05.002

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 138, Issue 2 , Pages 286-288 , August 2009

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