Early surgery or watchful waiting for asymptomatic severe degenerative mitral regurgitation: is the answer now clear?
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Howard Gilman Institute for Heart Valve Disease, and the Schiavone Institute for Cardiovascular Translational Research, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn and New York, New York. Electronic address: jsborer1@gmail.com.
Jeffrey S
JS
Borer
D058070:Asymptomatic Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D061345:Early Medical Intervention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy*
echocardiography; mitral valve; regurgitation; surgery