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Letters to the Editor

Injury to the circumflex coronary artery following mitral valve repair: a rather opposite strategy

Pirajussara General Hospital, Cardiovascular Surgery, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Received 27 December 2007; accepted 1 February 2008.

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Key Words: Mitral valve repair • Annuloplasty • Circumflex coronary artery • Myocardial ischemia

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The letter from Acar [1] on the management of circumflex artery injury after mitral valve repair, as well as the original report from Zegdi et al. [2], were both very instructive and definitely life-saving.

On the other hand, we would like to present our experience in the management of such complication, which was rather the opposite.

In two cases where reconstructive surgery of the mitral valve was attempted with implant of a flexible annuloplasty ring, persistent ST segment elevation in . . . [Full Text of this Article]