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Mitral Valve Surgery in the US Veterans Administration Health System: 10-Year Outcomes and Trends

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Submitted by

Aristotle Protopapas

Source

Source Name: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Source URL: http://www.jtcvsonline.org/article/S0022-5223(17)32144-X/abstract

Author(s)

Faisal G. Bakaeen, A. Laurie Shroyer, Marco A. Zenati, Vinay Badhwar, Vinod H. Thourani, James S. Gammie, Rakesh M. Suri, Joseph F. Sabik III, A. Marc Gillinov, Danny Chu, Shuab Omer, Mary T. Hawn, G. Hossein Almassi, Lorraine D. Cornwell, Frederick L. Grover, Todd K. Rosengart, Laura Graham

A large follow-up study comparing repair and replacement results and trends. Of particular interest to the UK and European readership is the page 113 discussion on the center of mitral excellence principle.