Impact of the Improvement of Valve Area Achieved With Aortic Valve Replacement on the Regression of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Patients With Pure Aortic Stenosis Giordano Tasca, MD, Federico Brunelli, MD, Marco Cirillo, MD, Margherita Dalla Tomba, MD, Zen Mhagna, MD, Giovanni Troise, MD, Eugenio Quaini, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 79, Issue 4, Pages 1291-1296 (April 2005) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.09.002 Copyright © 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Correlation between absolute left ventricular mass (LVM) index regression and increased indexed effective orifice area (r = −0.31; r2 = 10%; p = 0.001). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2005 79, 1291-1296DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.09.002) Copyright © 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions