Effects of Paracommissural Septal-Lateral Annular Cinching on Acute Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

Abstract
Background— Previous experimental studies demonstrated that central septal-lateral (SL) annular cinching (SLAC) abolishes acute ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR), but whether localized cinching near the anterior (ACOM) or posterior (PCOM) commissure is equally effective is unknown.