Comments Surgery:

• Flexible band, “no sizing” implant technique, length of 100 mm, implanted band length is determined by the annular size and degree of plication of the annular tissue

Comments Echocardiography:

• Implantation in mitral valve reconstruction leaves a the aortomitral curtain native (no band material across base of anterior mitral lieaflet)

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