Why the study?
Does combined mitral valve surgery and CABG improve survival in patients with moderate to severe ischemic mitral regurgitation?
Does combined mitral valve surgery and CABG improve survival in patients with moderate to severe ischemic mitral regurgitation?
Combined mitral valve surgery and CABG for ischemic mitral regurgitation provides satisfactory long-term survival and symptom relief despite high operative mortality, with similar late survival between valve repair and replacement.
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May support combined mitral-CABG surgery in ischemic MR; leaves open optimal strategy and survival benefit versus medical therapy alone.
Reza Tavakoli (2002) studied this question.
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