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Does age over 50 increase the risk or alter the prognosis of mitral valvuloplasty?
Does age over 50 increase the risk or alter the prognosis of mitral valvuloplasty?
This study investigates whether being over 50 years of age significantly increases the risk or alters the prognosis of mitral valvuloplasty.
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Age >50 effect on mitral valvuloplasty outcomes remains uncertain; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
IN the consideration of the relative and absolute contraindications to mitral valvuloplasty, age has figured prominently. The frequent assumption that certain persons are "too old for surgery" has prompted this study of patients who were more than fifty years of age at the time of operation to determine whether the factor of age had added significantly to the risk or altered the prognosis. It also seems important to inquire whether the degenerative diseases such as arteriosclerosis and hypertensive cardiovascular disease contribute to the difficulties in diagnosis or increase the risk. In the evaluation of these results, it has been our . . .
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