Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 22, Issue 11 , Pages 1256-1264 , November 2009

Continued Global Left Ventricular Remodeling Is Not the Sole Mechanism Responsible for the Late Recurrence of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation after Restrictive Annuloplasty

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 Disclosure: None.

 This work was supported by a grant from the Institut de Cardiologie de Québec, Hôpital Laval, Quebec, Canada (Dr Sénéchal) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MOP 67123), Ottawa, Canada. Dr Pibarot holds the Canada Research Chair in Valvular Heart Diseases, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

PII: S0894-7317(09)00719-6

doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.07.029

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 22, Issue 11 , Pages 1256-1264 , November 2009

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