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Early mitral repair feasible in selected stenosis cases; leaves open durability and selection criteria versus replacement.
patients with mitral disease from the Cardiac Department of the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh were treated by repair or replacement of the valve under cardiopulmonary bypass. Fifty patients had heavily sclerosed or calcified valves with pure or dominant stenosis and were treated by valve replacement. They presented a hemo- dynamic and technical problem different from that of the repair group and will not be discussed here. This paper is concerned with 51 patients treated by repair of the valve and followed for 4 to 45 months. THE
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