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      Left Atrial Dimension, Primary Mitral Regurgitation, and the Need of Early Surgery

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      Cardiology
      S. Karger AG

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          A prospective survey of patients with valvular heart disease in Europe: The Euro Heart Survey on Valvular Heart Disease.

          To identify the characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of contemporary patients with valvular heart disease (VHD) in Europe, and to examine adherence to guidelines. The Euro Heart Survey on VHD was conducted from April to July 2001 in 92 centres from 25 countries; it included prospectively 5001 adults with moderate to severe native VHD, infective endocarditis, or previous valve intervention. VHD was native in 71.9% of patients and 28.1% had had a previous intervention. Mean age was 64+/-14 years. Degenerative aetiologies were the most frequent in aortic VHD and mitral regurgitation while most cases of mitral stenosis were of rheumatic origin. Coronary angiography was used in 85.2% of patients before intervention. Of the 1269 patients who underwent intervention, prosthetic replacement was performed in 99.0% of aortic VHD, percutaneous dilatation in 33.9% of mitral stenosis, and valve repair in 46.5% of mitral regurgitation; 31.7% of patients had > or =1 associated procedure. Of patients with severe, symptomatic, single VHD, 31.8% did not undergo intervention, most frequently because of comorbidities. In asymptomatic patients, accordance with guidelines ranged between 66.0 and 78.5%. Operative mortality was <5% for single VHD. This survey provides unique contemporary data on characteristics and management of patients with VHD. Adherence to guidelines is globally satisfying as regards investigations and interventions.
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              Left atrial size is a potent predictor of mortality in mitral regurgitation due to flail leaflets: results from a large international multicenter study.

              Left atrium (LA) enlargement is common in organic mitral regurgitation (MR) and is an emerging prognostic indicator. However, outcome implications of LA enlargement have not been analyzed in the context of routine clinical practice and in a multicenter study. The Mitral Regurgitation International DAtabase (MIDA) registry enrolls patients with organic MR due to flail leaflets, diagnosed in routine clinical practice, in 5 US and European centers. We investigated the relation between LA diameter and mortality under medical treatment and after mitral surgery in 788 patients in sinus rhythm (64±12 years; median LA, 48 [43 to 52] mm). LA diameter was independently associated with survival after diagnosis (hazard ratio, 1.08 [1.04 to 1.12] per 1 mm increment). Compared with patients with LA 0.20). Mitral surgery was associated with greater survival benefit in patients with LA ≥55 mm compared with LA <55 mm (P for interaction, 0.008). In MR caused by flail leaflets, LA diameter ≥55 mm is associated with increased mortality under medical treatment, independent of the presence of symptoms or left ventricular dysfunction.
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                Journal
                CRD
                Cardiology
                10.1159/issn.0008-6312
                Cardiology
                S. Karger AG
                0008-6312
                1421-9751
                2019
                August 2019
                25 June 2019
                : 142
                : 4
                : 239-241
                Affiliations
                [_a] aCardiac Surgery and Cardiology Service, University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain
                [_b] bDepartment of Medicine, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
                [_c] cCIBERCV, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
                Author notes
                *Christian Muñoz-Guijosa, MD, PhD, Cardiac Surgery Department, University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona, Carretera Canyet s/n, ES–08916 Badalona (Spain), E-Mail cmguijosa.mn.ics@gencat.cat
                Article
                500447 Cardiology 2019;142:239–241
                10.1159/000500447
                31238327
                781900f8-04b6-4468-b2cd-28de83a0e21d
                © 2019 S. Karger AG, Basel

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                History
                : 10 April 2019
                : 13 April 2019
                Page count
                Pages: 3
                Categories
                Valvular Heart Disease: Commentary

                General medicine,Neurology,Cardiovascular Medicine,Internal medicine,Nephrology
                General medicine, Neurology, Cardiovascular Medicine, Internal medicine, Nephrology

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