[Articles] Outcome and undertreatment of mitral regurgitation: a community cohort study
In the community, isolated mitral regurgitation is common and is associated with excess mortality and frequent heart failure postdiagnosis in all patient subsets, even in those with normal left-ventricular ejection fraction and low comorbidity. Despite these poor outcomes, only a minority of affected patients undergo mitral (or any type of cardiac) surgery even in a community with all means of diagnosis and treatment readily available and accessible. This suggests that in a wider population there might be a substantial unmet need for treatment for this disorder.
Source: LANCET - Category: General Medicine Authors: Volha Dziadzko, Marie-Annick Clavel, Mikhail Dziadzko, Jose R Medina-Inojosa, Hector Michelena, Joseph Maalouf, Vuyisile Nkomo, Prabin Thapa, Maurice Enriquez-Sarano Tags: Articles Source Type: research