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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on May 10, 2007
European Heart Journal 2007 28(11):1281-1282; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm156
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2007. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Surgical referral in symptomatic mitral regurgitation: greater compliance with guidelines is needed

Angeline Law and Kwan-Leung Chan*

Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, 40 Ruskin Street, Room H3411, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1Y 4W7

* Corresponding author. Tel: +1 613 761 4189; fax: +1 613 761 4170. E-mail address: kchan@ottawaheart.ca

This editorial refers to ‘What are the characteristics of patients with severe, symptomatic, mitral regurgitation who are denied surgery?’{dagger} by M. Mirabel et al., on page 1358

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Significant valvular heart disease is a common public health problem with an overall prevalence of 2.5% which increases to 13% of the population aged 75 years and older.1 It will become an increasingly important problem as the baby-boomer population ages in the western world in the coming decades, because the burden of all forms of valve disease increases with age. Mitral regurgitation (MR) is the most common form of valve disease, and patients with severe MR can remain asymptomatic for many years.1 Once symptoms develop, these patients should undergo valve surgery.2 The study by Mirabel et al. . . [Full Text of this Article]


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