title: A patient's dilemma: mitral regurgitation--to operate--or medical management?
abstract: A personal view of a difficult decision by a retired professor of medicine in the Netherlands, Dr Shiva Shivananda.
authors.forename: Shiva
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shivananda
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy*; D012307:Risk Factors