This is a selected series of 28 patients with myxomatous mitral regurgitation that underwent correction of the anterior leaflet prolapse caused by chordal elongation by means of a running suture involving the chordal-cusp junction. Postoperative echocardi

Bifurcated anastomosis is a technique wherein geometrically tailored flaps of a vein graft are anastomosed to an arteriotomy in a vessel and its two branches. Although this technique may be useful for the surgical management of any diseased arterial bifurcation, it is particularly valuable in coronary endarterectomy or when complete revascularization of a coronary artery with proximal and bifurcation disease would otherwise require three separate bypass grafts.