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Association between early surgical intervention vs watchful waiting and outcomes for mitralregurgitation due to flail mitral valve leaflets.
Thursday, August 22, 2013
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Source Name: Journal of the American Medical Association
Source URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23942679
In this retrospective study the authors compare the outcomes between early surgery and watchful waiting in a large group of patients with mitral regurgitation due to flail mitral leaflets and without class I indication for surgery. Those patients who underwent early surgery had lower long term mortality and heart failure risk. There were no differences in the short term outcomes.