In a study that included patients with mitral valve regurgitation due to a condition known as flail mitral valve leaflets, performance of early surgical correction compared with initial medical ...

ROCHESTER, MN — Patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) without a class I indication for surgical intervention fared significantly better when treated with surgery than patients who underwent ...

Early surgery improves long-term survival and reduces the risk of heart failure among patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) owing to mitral valve flail leaflet when compared with medical ...

Mitral valve surgery is used to treat both primary and secondary MR. Surgery, whether mitral valve repair or replacement, has been the standard of care in treating patients with primary (degenerative) ...

Almost 20 years’ worth of follow-up in an international registry shows that patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation who underwent mitral valve (MV) repair had better survival, fewer ...

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