Assessment and Management of Acute Severe Mitral Regurgitation in the Intensive Care Unit.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with severe MR are at high risk of in-hospital death. Patients with functional MR are likely to benefit from prompt PCI to the culprit artery, and for those with primary MR urgent surgery is life-saving. PMID: 28820545 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Heart Valve Disease - Category: Cardiology Tags: J Heart Valve Dis Source Type: research