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Annuloplasty

Annuloplasty (anuloplastica; lat. anulus – a ringlet, a ring + Greek plastike – a molding, a sculpture) – surgery on reduction of a circle of a fibrous ring of heart by corrugation by its seams. Anuloplastika is applied at mitral insufficiency with the expressed heart dilatation.

 
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