**7.3 Clinical results**

All 40 patients were treated with CABG and SVR (endoventricular circular patch plasty). The age of the patients averaged 69 years (range, 52-84 years). Among them, 19 patients had severe mitral regurgitation and received additional MVS. 28 patients had CHF. The baseline patient characteristics are summarized in Table 8.


Table 8. Patients' characteristics and clinical data (n=40). This table is related to our work in Ref [19].
