Contemporary Management of Chronic Severe Mitral …

Outcomes in patients with untreated severe chronic mitral regurgitation One year survival was 96.3 + 1.3 % in operated patients vs. 88.2 + 2.5 % in the non-operated patients (p=0.003)1 Patients with primary mitral regurgitation have an excess mortality rate of 6.3% per year2 Within 10-years, the incidence of atrial fibrillation is ~30% and incidence of clinical heart failure ................
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