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Cardiac Valve Annuloplasty

"Cardiac Valve Annuloplasty" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A type of heart valve surgery that involves the repair, replacement, or reconstruction of the annuli of HEART VALVES. It includes shortening the circumference of the annulus to improve valve closing capacity and reinforcing the annulus as a step in more complex valve repairs.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cardiac Valve Annuloplasty" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Cardiac Valve Annuloplasty" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 31 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2015
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.