20090417 Few Patients With Functional MR Are Treated Surgically: Duke Database Results Mitchell W. Krucoff MD FACC, FAHA, FSCAI Professor of Medicine / Cardiology Duke University Medical Center Director, Cardiovascular Devices Unit Duke Clinical Research Institute
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Few Patients With Functional MR Are Treated Surgically: Duke Database Results
Few Patients With Functional MR Are Treated Surgically: Duke Database Results. Mitchell W. Krucoff MD FACC, FAHA, FSCAI Professor of Medicine / Cardiology Duke University Medical Center Director, Cardiovascular Devices Unit Duke Clinical Research Institute. Conflict of Interest. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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20090417
Few Patients With Functional MR Are Treated Surgically:Duke Database Results
Mitchell W. Krucoff MD
FACC, FAHA, FSCAIProfessor of Medicine / Cardiology
Duke University Medical CenterDirector, Cardiovascular Devices Unit
Duke Clinical Research Institute
20090417
Conflict of Interest
Research grants, consulting, advisory: Abbott Vascular Cardiac Dimension Medtronic St. Jude
20090417
Acknowledgement
Zainab Samad, Eric Yow, Linda K Shaw, Hussein R Al-Khalidi, Kristine Arges, John H
Toptine, Andrew Wang, James G Jollis, Eric J Velazquez
AHA 2011
20090417
Background
While systematic “real world” data exist on patients with MR undergoing surgery (Society of Thoracic Surgery=STS database), there is far less information on the incidence and outcomes of MR patients managed medically.
While valve repair/replacement is accepted therapy for degenerative MR, the value of such interventions in functional MR patients is unknown