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Does surgical mitral valve repair with the loop-in-loop technique improve cardiac size and survival in dogs with myxomatous mitral valve disease?
Does surgical mitral valve repair with the loop-in-loop technique improve cardiac size and survival in dogs with myxomatous mitral valve disease?
In a veterinary model, surgical mitral valve repair using the loop-in-loop technique effectively reduces cardiac size, though operative survival depends on the baseline disease stage.
Reduces cardiac size in canine MMVD models; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Surgical mitral valve repair with the loop-in-loop technique is associated with significant decreases in indices of cardiac size at one-month post-repair. Disease stage influences operative survival after surgical mitral valve repair.
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