Why the study?
Does mitral valve repair by Alfieri's technique reduce exercise tolerance compared to Carpentier's correction in patients with mitral regurgitation?
Does mitral valve repair by Alfieri's technique reduce exercise tolerance compared to Carpentier's correction in patients with mitral regurgitation?
Alfieri's edge-to-edge mitral valve repair does not significantly limit exercise tolerance or result in higher transmitral gradients during exercise compared to classical Carpentier techniques.
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Alfieri repair was not associated with reduced exercise tolerance; leaves open functional equivalence pending randomized confirmation in mitral regurgitation.
Frapier et al. (2006) studied this question.
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