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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 17.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2017 Jan 17;135(3):297–314. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.025260

Figure 8. Impact of restrictive mitral valve annuloplasty (RMA) on the dynamic lesion in secondary mitral valve regurgitation (MR).

Figure 8

Sustained MR reduction during exercise in patients undergoing additional RMA for secondary MR is observed with exercise echocardiography, in contrast to the exercise-induced MR deterioration observed in coronary artery bypass grafting only patients. Reproduced from Fattouch et al97, with permission.