Importance of right ventricular performance measurement in selecting asymptomatic patients with mitral regurgitation for valve surgery.
Borer
Jeffrey S
JS
Division of Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Howard Gilman Institute for Valvular Heart Diseases, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, N.Y., USA.
Hochreiter
Clare A
CA
Supino
Phyllis G
PG
Herrold
Edmund McM
EM
Krieger
Karl H
KH
Isom
O Wayne
OW
D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D018579:Patient Selection; D013318:Stroke Volume / Q000502:physiology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D016278:Ventricular Function, Right / Q000502:physiology*