Implementing Formal Mitral Heart Team Improves Multidisciplinary Evaluation Rate and Survival of Patients With Severe Primary Mitral Regurgitation.
Christina J WaldronMakoto MoriMarkus KraneSamuel W ReinhardtYousif AhmadRyan KapleJohn K ForrestArnar GeirssonPublished in: Journal of the American Heart Association (2024)
Implementation of mitral HT was associated with drastic improvement in multidisciplinary evaluation for patients with severe primary mitral regurgitation. This coincided with higher proportions of patients undergoing mechanical correction of MR and improved overall patient survival.
Keyphrases
- quality improvement
- mitral valve
- patients undergoing
- left ventricular
- early onset
- left atrial
- heart failure
- primary care
- healthcare
- free survival
- magnetic resonance
- aortic stenosis
- palliative care
- case report
- computed tomography
- drug induced
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- contrast enhanced
- ejection fraction
- clinical evaluation