World Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Vol.5 No.7(2015), Paper ID 58050, 7 pages

DOI:10.4236/wjcs.2015.57011

 

A Surgical Perspective on Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation: Tethering or Prolapse? Going Back to Papillary Muscles Anatomy. What the Surgeons Really Need to Know

 

Francesco Nappi, Cristiano Spadaccio, Christophe Acar

 

Cardiac Surgery Centre Cardiologique du Nord de Saint-Denis, Paris, France
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow, UK
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hôpital de la Salpétrière, Paris, France

 

Copyright © 2015 Francesco Nappi, Cristiano Spadaccio, Christophe Acar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Nappi, F. , Spadaccio, C. and Acar, C. (2015) A Surgical Perspective on Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation: Tethering or Prolapse? Going Back to Papillary Muscles Anatomy. What the Surgeons Really Need to Know. World Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 5, 63-69. doi: 10.4236/wjcs.2015.57011.

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