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
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