TY - JOUR
T1 - Timing of surgery in patients with chronic, severe mitral regurgitation
AU - Thomson, Helen L.
AU - Enriquez-Sarano, Maurice
AU - Tajik, A. Jamal
AU - Cheitlin, Melvin D.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) who are managed conservatively sustain excess mortality and morbidity. With improved mortality and morbidity rates being achieved with surgical management, cardiologists and cardiac surgeons are becoming more aggressive in treating patients with severe MR with surgery. Recent data indicate that even in the absence of symptoms or left ventricular dysfunction, surgery should be offered as a treatment for MR, provided that the regurgitation is severe, the valve seems to be repairable, and the surgeon is experienced in valve repair and is aided by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography.
AB - Patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) who are managed conservatively sustain excess mortality and morbidity. With improved mortality and morbidity rates being achieved with surgical management, cardiologists and cardiac surgeons are becoming more aggressive in treating patients with severe MR with surgery. Recent data indicate that even in the absence of symptoms or left ventricular dysfunction, surgery should be offered as a treatment for MR, provided that the regurgitation is severe, the valve seems to be repairable, and the surgeon is experienced in valve repair and is aided by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography.
KW - Transesophageal echocardiography
KW - Valve repair
KW - Valvular heart disease
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U2 - 10.1097/00045415-200105000-00006
DO - 10.1097/00045415-200105000-00006
M3 - Review article
C2 - 11304399
AN - SCOPUS:0035004437
SN - 1061-5377
VL - 9
SP - 137
EP - 143
JO - Cardiology in Review
JF - Cardiology in Review
IS - 3
ER -