Erratum for a missing eComment ‘Left ventricular rupture after mitral valve replacement: the most dreaded complication’

Autor: Pablo César Lustosa, Rodrigo Renda Escobar, Ricardo de Carvalho Lima, Frederico Pires Vasconcelos, Wendell Santos Martins, Frederico Browne Correia de Araújo e Sá, Paulo Ernando Ferraz, Michel Pompeu Barros de Oliveira Sá
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Popis: Erratum for a missing eComment to ‘Preservation versus non-preservation of mitral valve apparatus during mitral valve replacement: a meta-analysis of 3835 patients’ [Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2012;15:1033–1039]† The publisher regrets having failed to include the following eComment related to the article by Sa et al. [1]. We express our sincere apologies to the author of this eComment. eComment. Left ventricular rupture after mitral valve replacement: the most dreaded complication Author: Ovidio A. Garcia-Villarreal Department of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital of Cardiovascular Disease No. 34, IMSS, Monterrey, Mexico. E-mail: moc.liamtoh@vgoidivo. doi:10.1093/icvts/ivs467 © The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved. I have read with great interest the article by Sa et al [1]. This meta-analysis addresses a very important topic in surgery for mitral valve disease, that is, the preservation of subvalvular structures during mitral valve replacement (MVR) and its inherent consequences. As the authors note, after the analysis of 3835 patients (1918 for MVR with subvalvular preservation and 1917 for MVR with non-preservation) the odds ratio for early mortality (0.418, p
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