The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 5 , Pages 1114-1122 , May 2010

Effects of different annuloplasty rings on anterior mitral leaflet dimensions

Read at the Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of The Western Thoracic Surgical Association, June 24–27, 2009, Banff, Canada.

  • Wolfgang Bothe, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
    • Both authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • John-Peder Escobar Kvitting, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
    • Both authors contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Julia C. Swanson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
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  • Sigurd Hartnett, BA

      Affiliations

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

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Cardiovascular Physiology and Biophysics, Research Institute of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, 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 94305-5247.

Received 24 August 2009 ,Revised 1 December 2009 ,Accepted 13 December 2009.

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 The work was supported by US National Institutes of Health grants R01 HL 29589 and R01 HL67025 (to D.C.M.); Deutsche Herzstiftung, Frankfurt, Germany, research grant S/06/07 (to W.B.); US-Norway Fulbright Foundation and the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation (to J-P.E.K.); and Western States Affiliate American Heart Association Fellowship (to J.C.S.).

 Disclosures: None.

PII: S0022-5223(09)01614-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.12.014

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 5 , Pages 1114-1122 , May 2010

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