Role of inadequate adaptive left ventricular hypertrophy in the genesis of mitral regurgitation in patients with severe aortic stenosis: implications for its prevention.

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BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE STUDY: Mitral regurgitation (MR) is frequent in patients with severe calcific aortic stenosis (AS). This complicates not only the clinical course of AS, but also its surgical management. The aim of the present study was to investigate the mechanism of genesis of MR in pa...

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