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Earlier surgical intervention for mitral regurgitation is supported by improved surgical techniques, low operative mortality, and echocardiographic monitoring of left ventricular dilatation.
Echocardiography plays a crucial role in determining the optimal timing for surgical intervention in mitral regurgitation, supporting earlier surgery in appropriate patients.
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May support earlier mitral regurgitation surgery with serial echocardiography; hypothesis-generating absent randomized confirmation.
Advances in diagnostic and surgical techniques in the management of mitral regurgitation have resulted in improved survival rates and clinical outcomes. Echocardiography is a valuable noninvasive diagnostic tool in the determination of the timing of surgical correction of mitral regurgitation. Improved surgical techniques, the growing role of mitral valve repair, low operative mortality rates, and improved long-term survival rates are important considerations for earlier surgical intervention in symptomatic patients and in asymptomatic patients with echocardiographic criteria of left ventricular dilatation. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography is very useful in mitral valve repair and valve replacement with preservation of chordal structures.
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Ofili et al. (2000) conducted a review in Mitral Valve Regurgitation. Surgical correction was evaluated. Earlier surgical intervention for mitral regurgitation is supported by improved surgical techniques, low operative mortality, and echocardiographic monitoring of left ventricular dilatation.
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