TY - BOOK AU - Mohamed Ahmed Adel Abdelwahab AU - Ahmed Hussien Gaafer , AU - Hussien Heshmat Kasem , AU - Zeinab Attia Ashour , TI - Clinical and echocardiographic correlates of postoperative LV function after mitral valve surgery in patients with severe mitral incompetence / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohamed Ahmed Adel Abdelwahab , KW - 6. Minulue walk test - mitral valve surgery KW - Left ventricular ejecfion fraction KW - Severe mitral incompetence N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Cardiology; Issued also as CD N2 - Severe mitral regurgitation (MR) is associated with reduced afterload and overestimated ejection fraction (EF) Correction MR may result in significant decline of EF in some patients . Aim : Determine the predictors of postoperative decline of EF in patients with severe MR after mitral valve surgery . Results : The mean age of patients was 33 ±12.7 years and 63.3% were females . the cause of MR was rheumatic in 20 patients myxomatous in 10 patients UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -