D. Craig Miller, M.D.
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Septal-lateral annular cinching ('SLAC) reduces mitral annular size without perturbing normal annular dynamics.
J Heart Valve Dis. 2002; (1): 2-9; discussion 10
Septal-lateral (S-L) mitral annular diameter reduction is thought to be central to the efficacy of ring annuloplasty in correcting functional mitral regurgitation (MR), but rings perturb mitral annulus (MA) dynamic motion and limit posterior leaflet excursion. The effects of S-L annular cinching ('SLAC'), a novel method for mitral annular reduction, were investigated.
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