The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 138, Issue 5 , Pages 1090-1099 , November 2009

Mitral annular hinge motion contribution to changes in mitral septal–lateral dimension and annular area

  • Akinobu Itoh, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
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  • Daniel B. Ennis, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
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  • Wolfgang Bothe, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
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  • Julia C. Swanson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
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  • Gaurav Krishnamurthy, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
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  • Tom C. Nguyen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
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  • Neil B. Ingels Jr., PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
    • Laboratory of Cardiovascular Physiology and Biophysics, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif
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  • D. Craig Miller, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: D. Craig Miller, MD, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Falk Cardiovascular Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5407.

Received 12 May 2008 ,Revised 15 January 2009 ,Accepted 23 March 2009.

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 Supported by grants HL-29589 and HL-67025 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. A.I., W.B., J.C.S., and T.C.N. were Carl and Leah McConnell Cardiovascular Surgical Research Fellows. A.I. was a recipient of Uehara Memorial Foundation Research Fellowship Award. D.B.E. is supported by National Institutes of Health grant K99-HL087614. W.B. was supported by the Deutsche Herzstiftung Research Fellowship Award. T.C.N. was a recipient of the Thoracic Society Foundation Research Fellowship Award.

 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)00994-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.03.067

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 138, Issue 5 , Pages 1090-1099 , November 2009

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