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A 75-year-old woman experienced recurrent mitral regurgitation caused mainly by a shrunken and tethered posterior mitral leaflet with a dilated left ventricle. Posterior leaflet motion was severely restricted. We successfully resolved the tethering and restored valve coaptation and competence using posterior leaflet reconstruction, which is a modified method of posterior leaflet augmentation using autologous pericardium. This technique can recover the posterior leaflet function by improving tissue volume and tethering.
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Hosono, M., Kuwauchi, S., Taniguchi, N. et al. Posterior leaflet reconstruction using autologous pericardium in mitral repair. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 66, 432–434 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-017-0851-4
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