Can Elderly Patients with Severe Mitral Regurgitation Benefit from Trans-catheter Mitral Valve Repair?

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Age is a traditional risk factor for open-heart surgery. The efficacy and safety of transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair, using MitraClip (Abbott Vascular), has been demonstrated in patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR). Since octogenarians or older pati...

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Autores principales: Lee, Ching-Wei, Sung, Shih-Hsien, Huang, Wei-Ming, Tsai, Yi-Lin, Chen, Hsiang-Yao, Hsu, Chiao-Po, Shih, Chun-Che, Chung, Kuo-Piao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Cardiology 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6554583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30891963
http://dx.doi.org/10.4070/kcj.2018.0417

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6554583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30891963
http://dx.doi.org/10.4070/kcj.2018.0417

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