1. Edge-to-edge (Alfieri) mitral repair: results in diverse clinical settings 
Sunil K Bhudia, MD, Patrick M McCarthy, MD, Nicholas G Smedira, MD, Buu-Khanh Lam, MD, Jeevanantham Rajeswaran, MS, Eugene H Blackstone, MD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 77, Issue 5, Pages (May 2004)
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2. Fig 1
Evolution of mitral regurgitation (MR) after edge-to-edge mitral valve repair. Symbols represent grouped data according to percent of observations of grade of mitral regurgitation • = grade 0; ○ = 1+; □ = 2+; Δ = 3+; ♢ = 4+. Solid lines indicate predicted mean percentage of patients in each MR grade with time from longitudinal modeling.
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3. Fig 2
Patients with mitral regurgitation (MR) grades 3+ or 4+ after edge-to-edge repair in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, and degenerative mitral disease. Solid lines indicate predicted mean percentage of patients and dashed lines indicate 68% confidence limits from longitudinal model. • = ischemic; ○ = dilated; □ = degenerative.
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4. Fig 3
Predicted percentage of patients with grade 3+ or 4+ mitral regurgitation (MR) after edge-to-edge repair according to left ventricular reconstruction (solid line and •) or not (solid line and ○) among patients with preoperative ischemic mitral regurgitation. Dashed lines(broad = left ventricular reconstruction; narrow = non–left ventricular reconstruction) show 68% confidence limits.
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5. Fig 4
Freedom from death. The solid line shows predicted curve with 68% confidence limits in dashed line. Numbers in parentheses show patients at risk at 1, 3, and 4.5 years.
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