Surgery for asymptomatic severe mitral regurgitation in the elderly: Early surgery or wait and watch?

Circulation

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 258-260

  St John Sutton, Martin G ^a   Gorman, Robert C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANNULOPLASTY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; SURVIVAL RATE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33748041963     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.636670     Document Type: Editorial

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