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Percutaneous Repair or Medical Treatment for Secondary Mitral Regurgitation
Submitted by: Tom C. Nguyen
Source: The New England Journal of Medicine
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Author(s): Jean-François Obadia, David Messika-Zeitoun, Guillaume Leurent, Bernard Lung, Guillaume Bonnet, Nicolas Piriou, Thierry Lefèvre, Christophe Piot, Frédéric Rouleau, Didier Carrié, Mohammed Nejjari, Patrick Ohlmann, et al., for the MITRA-FR Investigators.*
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