Survival and Cardiovascular Outcomes of Patients With Secondary Mitral Regurgitation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The outcomes of patients with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction and secondary mitral regurgitation (SMR) are still controversial.

Objective

To clarify the role of SMR in the outcomes of patients with ischemic or idiopathic cardiomyopathies.

Data sources

MEDLINE, ISI Web of Science, and Scopus databases were searched for studies published up to March 2017.

Study selection

Studies reporting data on outcomes in patients with SMR were included. Duplicate publication data, studies lacking data on SMR grade and its correlation with outcomes, mixed data on SMR and primary mitral regurgitation, studies not clearly reporting the outcome of interest, and studies with fewer than 100 patients were excluded. Of the initial 3820 articles identified, 1.4% were fina

SUBMITTER: Sannino A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5710448 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature