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The anesthetic chart from anesthetic induction to the start of surgery. Any vasopressor agent was not used to maintain hemodynamics during the period of anesthetic induction.
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Monitoring followed a routine protocol for mitral clip implantation that included the use of transesophageal echocardiography and the FloTrac monitoring system (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, CA, USA), which can measure continuous cardiac output, cardiac index, and stroke volume.  Figure 1 shows the anesthetic chart from anesthetic induction to the start of surgery.