Does restricted coronary flow reserve in patients with mitral regurgitation improve after mitral reconstructive surgery?
Coronary flow reserve is limited in cases with MR because of elevation of baseline resting flow velocity. This reduction of CFR correlates well with increase in LV preload, mass and volume overload, especially with increase in LV preload, and this restricted CFR improves after mitral valve surgery.
These results indicate that TF + N-CWS is beneficial as adjuvant therapy after surgical treatment of Stage I nonsmall cell carcinoma of the lung.