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An adjuvant surgical approach facilitates appropriate length adjustment of PTFE neo-chordae, which is crucial for early and late outcomes in mitral valve repair.
Describes an adjuvant surgical approach to facilitate appropriate length adjustment of PTFE neo-chordae during mitral valve repair.
May support refined mitral repair techniques; leaves open prospective validation before practice change.
Appropriate length adjustment of neo-chordae using PTFE sutures for mitral valve repair in degenerative valve disease has a crucial impact on both early and late outcomes of the repair. Herein we describe an adjuvant approach to facilitate the length adjustment.
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Çimen et al. (2006) studied this question. An adjuvant surgical approach facilitates appropriate length adjustment of PTFE neo-chordae, which is crucial for early and late outcomes in mitral valve repair.
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