- About 24 million people around the world are affected by a type of heart valve disease called mitral regurgitation.
- Doctors normally turn to surgery or a less invasive procedure for treating mitral regurgitation.
- Researchers from West Virginia University report that the rate of successful repair in the United States was more than 90% and mortality risk after surgery was less than 1% for most people.
- Scientists plan to use these findings to create a new online risk calculator to help doctors predict 30-day outcomes based on the patient’s health conditions.
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Traditionally, people with the condition will undergo surgery to repair the mitral valve of the heart. Additionally, doctors can use a less invasive procedure called
Doctors use risk estimation to decide which type of treatment will have the best outcome.
Now, researchers from West Virginia University report that the rate of successful repair for people who underwent surgical mitral valve repair is more than 90% in the United States. They add that the mortality risk after surgery was less than 1% for the majority of people.
Researchers say their research can help develop a new risk model for predicting 30-day outcomes based on a person’s health conditions. This could be used to develop a new online risk calculator for doctors to use.
The study was recently published jointly in the journals The Annals of Thoracic Surgery and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
The mitral valve is one of the heart‘s four valves.
It is located on the left side of the heart between the upper left heart chamber and lower left heart chamber, also known as the
This heart valve is responsible for ensuring blood flows in a forward direction between the left atrium into the left ventricle. It also…
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