Does mitral valve repair improve long-term survival compared to mitral valve replacement in patients with mitral valve regurgitation?
Mitral valve repair offers a long-term survival advantage over replacement in degenerative mitral regurgitation, but not in secondary mitral regurgitation.
Among patients suitable for either surgical strategy, mitral valve repair showed better long-term survival compared to replacement, particularly in degenerative MR. However, this advantage was not observed in secondary MR.
Dębski et al. (Tue,) studied this question.