Prevalence and outcomes of unoperated patients with severe symptomatic mitral regurgitation and heart failure: comprehensive analysis to determine the potential role of MitraClip for this unmet need

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014 Jan 21;63(2):185-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.08.723. Epub 2013 Sep 11.

Authors

Sachin S Goel¹, Navkaranbir Bajaj², Bhuvnesh Aggarwal², Supriya Gupta¹, Kanhaiya Lal Poddar¹, Mobolaji Ige², Hazem Bdair¹, Abed Anabtawi¹, Shiraz Rahim³, Patrick L Whitlow¹, E Murat Tuzcu¹, Brian P Griffin¹, William J Stewart¹, Marc Gillinov⁴, Eugene H Blackstone⁴, Nicholas G Smedira⁴, Guilherme H Oliveira¹, Benico Barzilai¹, Venu Menon¹, Samir R Kapadia⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
³ Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁴ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. Electronic address: kapadis@ccf.org.

PMID: 24036029
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.08.723

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Disease Progression
Follow-Up Studies
Heart Failure / epidemiology*
Heart Failure / etiology
Heart Valve Prosthesis*
Humans
Mitral Valve / surgery*
Mitral Valve Insufficiency / complications
Mitral Valve Insufficiency / surgery*
Prevalence
Prognosis
Prosthesis Design
Retrospective Studies
United States / epidemiology