Should moderate or greater mitral regurgitation be repaired in all patients with LVEF <30%? Surgery, mitral regurgitation, and heart failure: the valves are all repairable but the patients are not.
McGee
Edwin C
EC
Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and Department of Surgery, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, 201 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. emcgee@nmh.org
D006333:Heart Failure / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000601:surgery; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013318:Stroke Volume; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left