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Clinical results of minimally invasive mitral valve surgery were retrospectively reviewed, and two different surgical approaches were compared in this study. Between 1997 and 2004, a total of 86 patients...
We performed real-time 3D echocardiography in sixteen sheep to compare acute geometric changes in the mitral annulus after left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD, n=8) ligation and those after left...
For the purpose of determining the pathogenic role of transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) in the mechanism of chronic rheumatic heart disease, we evaluated the expression of TGF-beta1, proliferation of myofibroblasts,...