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Mitral valve repair versus replacement in the elderly: Short-term and long-term outcomes
Puja Gaur, MD, Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD, Siobhan McGurk, BS, James D. Rawn, MD, Ann Maloney, BS, Lawrence H. Cohn, MD The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 148, Issue 4, Pages (October 2014) DOI: /j.jtcvs Copyright © 2014 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
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Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier survival analysis of all elderly patients undergoing mitral valve repair compared with those undergoing mitral valve replacement with (A) and without (B) coronary artery bypass graft. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery , DOI: ( /j.jtcvs ) Copyright © 2014 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
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Figure 2 Cox regression analysis of 658 elderly patients with mitral regurgitation undergoing mitral valve repair (n = 556) or replacement (n = 102) demonstrates a significantly improved long-term survival of patients undergoing mitral valve repair. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery , DOI: ( /j.jtcvs ) Copyright © 2014 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
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