What are the characteristics of patients with severe, symptomatic, mitral regurgitation who are denied surgery?

European Heart Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1358-1365

  Mirabel, Mariana ^a   Iung, Bernard ^a   Baron, Gabriel ^a   Messika Zeitoun, David ^a   Détaint, Delphine ^a   Vanoverschelde, Jean Louis ^b   Butchart, Eric G ^c   Ravaud, Philippe ^a   Vahanian, Alec ^a  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Mitral regurgitation; Mitral valve repair; Mitral valve replacement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REFUSAL TO TREAT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548460306     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm001     Document Type: Article

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