Upon receiving report of his assigned patients, the nurse learns he is assigned to care for a patient scheduled for a chordoplasty procedure. This procedure is used to:
A) Repair valve annulus
B) Repair leaflets
C) Repair chordae tendineae
D) Repair the commissure
Ans: C
Feedback: Chordoplasty is a procedure to shorten, reattach, or elongate the chordae tendineae.
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