The clinical and diagnostic features of mitral valve disease.
Mitral valve disease remains common, and requires regular clinical and echocardiographic review. Surgery is indicated soon after the development of symptoms or at the first sign of left ventricular decompensation in mitral regurgitation or of the right ventricle in mitral stenosis.
Cardiothoracic Centre, Guys and St Thomas' Hospitals, London SE1 7EH.
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