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Two-Year Outcomes of Surgical Treatment of Severe Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

Friday, January 29, 2016

Submitted by

Aristotle Protopapas

Source

Source Name: The New England Journal of Medicine

Source URL: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1512913

Author(s)

Daniel Goldstein, Alan J. Moskowitz, Annetine C. Gelijns, Gorav Ailawadi, Michael K. Parides, Louis P. Perrault, Judy W. Hung, Pierre Voisine, Francois Dagenais, A. Marc Gillinov, Vinod Thourani, Michael Argenziano, James S. Gammie, Michael Mack, Philippe Demers, Pavan Atluri, Eric A. Rose, Karen O’Sullivan, Deborah L. Williams, Emilia Bagiella, Robert E. Michler, Richard D. Weisel, Marissa A. Miller, Nancy L. Geller, Wendy C. Taddei-Peters, Peter K. Smith, Ellen Moquete, Jessica R. Overbey, Irving L. Kron, Patrick T. O’Gara, and Michael A. Acker

A robust manuscript from a small randomized trial: the authors indicate mid-term non-superiority of mitral annuloplasty over replacement in an important subset of patients with severe regurgitation!