Valve Disease: Asymptomatic mitral regurgitation: does surgery save lives?
Management of asymptomatic patients with severe mitral valve regurgitation is controversial-conservative surveillance and early mitral valve repair have both been advocated as reasonable approaches on the basis of divergent data. a new study by Kang et al. fuels this debate. However, careful assessment of the existing literature can provide insight into the optimal care of this population of patients.
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D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D018579:Patient Selection; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016896:Treatment Outcome