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Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009 Aug 11;54(7):638–651. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.03.071

Table 2.

Measures of mitral valve regurgitation and leaflet function before and after application of cerclage tension (n=10 except for velocity-encoded MRI, n=5).

	Baseline	Tension	p
Mitral regurgitation
Regurgitant fraction by slice-tracking velocity-encoded MRI	22.8 ± 12.7	7.2 ± 4.4	0.04
Categorical mitral regurgitation total (Grade 1–4)	1.7 ± 0.8	0.7 ± 0.5	0.01
Mitral valve coaptation
Mitral valve tenting area (cm²)	2.1 ± 0.5	1.5 ± 0.5	0.01
Posterior displacement of line of coaptation (mm)	25.7 ± 4.0	21.2 ± 4.8	0.01
Leaflet coaptation length (mm)	3.0 ± 2.4	4.8 ± 1.6	0.12