Updated AATS Guidelines Help Cardiovascular Surgeons Navigate the Challenges of Managing Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation (IMAGE)

American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Updated AATS Guidelines Help Cardiovascular Surgeons Navigate the Challenges of Managing Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

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This is an illustrated mechanism of IMR. Apically displaced leaflet coaptation with restricted leaflet closure results in MR. MR, Mitral regurgitation; AoV, aortic valve.

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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

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