Transcatheter Repair or Surgery for Functional Mitral Regurgitation

Functional mitral regurgitation is a disease of the left heart as opposed to the valve leaflets themselves. Two thirds of patients with heart failure have moderate or severe functional mitral regurgitation.1 In these patients, left ventricular dysfunction and remodeling cause papillary muscle displacement and mitral annular dilatation; these…

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