Preoperative Posterior Leaflet Angle Accurately Predicts Outcome After Restrictive Mitral Valve Annuloplasty for Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

2001 • 1,406 citations

Intermediate-Term Outcome Of Mitral Reconstruction In Cardiomyopathy

1998 • 700 citations

Impact of mitral valve annuloplasty on mortality risk in patients with mitral regurgitation and left ventricular systolic dysfunction

2005 • 686 citations

Clinical Significance of Mitral Regurgitation After Acute Myocardial Infarction

1997 • 682 citations

Recurrent mitral regurgitation after annuloplasty for functional ischemic mitral regurgitation

2004 • 619 citations

Ultrasonic Echolucent Carotid Plaques Predict Future Strokes

2001 • 569 citations

Is repair preferable to replacement for ischemic mitral regurgitation?

2001 • 566 citations

Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation on the Threshold of a Solution

2005 • 458 citations

Mechanism of Recurrent Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation After Annuloplasty

2004 • 431 citations

Early outcome of mitral valve reconstruction in patients with end-stage cardiomyopathy

1995 • 369 citations

Does Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Alone Correct Moderate Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation?

2001 • 358 citations

Surgical relocation of the posterior papillary muscle in chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation

2002 • 336 citations

Mitral valve procedure in dilated cardiomyopathy: repair or replacement?

2001 • 317 citations

Assessment of Mitral Regurgitation Severity by Doppler Color Flow Mapping of the Vena Contracta

1997 • 291 citations

Mechanism of Recurrent/Persistent Ischemic/Functional Mitral Regurgitation in the Chronic Phase After Surgical Annuloplasty

2006 • 196 citations

Echocardiographic classification of chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation caused by restricted motion according to tethering pattern

2004 • 192 citations

Reverse Ventricular Remodeling Reduces Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

2002 • 160 citations

Efficacy of Chordal Cutting to Relieve Chronic Persistent Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

2003 • 160 citations

Mechanism of Persistent Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation After Annuloplasty

2005 • 131 citations

Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Atrial Clots in a Swine Model

2005 • 120 citations

Restricted posterior leaflet motion after mitral ring annuloplasty

1999 • 116 citations

Mitral Repair Versus Replacement for Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

2005 • 108 citations

Is a good perioperative echocardiographic result predictive of durability in ischemic mitral valve repair?

2006 • 90 citations

Failure of reduction annuloplasty for functional ischemic mitral regurgitation.

2004 • 76 citations

Mechanism of mitral leaflet excursion

1995 • 55 citations

Does Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Alone Correct Moderate Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation?

2001 • 38 citations

Mitral ring annuloplasty: An incomplete correction of functional mitral regurgitation associated with left ventricular remodeling

2001 • 32 citations

Autologous Myoblast Transplantation for Chronic Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

2006 • 29 citations

Vena contracta width as a simple method of assessing mitral valve regurgitation. Comparison with Doppler quantitative methods.

2004 • 24 citations