George V. Letsou, M.D., and Forrest Rubenstein, M.D.

Dr. Letsou is Associate Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Texas Medical School, Houston. Dr. Rubenstein is a cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, Toledo, OH.

Drs. Letsou and Rubenstein report no commercial conflict of interest.

Release Date: 02/25/2002
Termination Date: 02/25/2005

Estimated time to complete: 1 hour(s).

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Upon completion of this Cyberounds^®, you should be able to:

• Discuss normal and abnormal mitral valve function
• Enumerate the differences between the primary types of mitral valve repair
• Describe the differences between types of annuloplasty rings.

 

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