Impact of cardiac resynchronization therapy on the severity of mitral regurgitation.

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Published in Europace on April 12, 2011

Authors

Luigi Di Biase1, Angelo Auricchio, Prasant Mohanty, Rong Bai, Josef Kautzner, Paolo Pieragnoli, Francois Regoli, Antonio Sorgente, Giulio Spinucci, Giuseppe Ricciardi, Antonio Michelucci, Laura Perrotta, Francesco Faletra, Hancha Mlcochová, Kamil Sedlacek, Robert Canby, Javier E Sanchez, Rodney Horton, J David Burkhardt, Tiziano Moccetti, Luigi Padeletti, Andrea Natale

Author Affiliations

1: Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St David's Medical Center, Austin, TX, USA.

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