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Figure 1 Long-Term Outcome of Mitral Regurgitation Due to Flail Leaflet Under Medical Treatment
Kaplan-Meier curves showing the estimated 8-year cumulative incidence of atrial fibrillation (AFib), heart failure (HF), or mitral valve (MV) surgery/cardiovascular death (CVD) during nonsurgical management of patients (n = 394) with mitral regurgitation due to flail leaflet. The results indicate that patients experienced high rates of adverse events under nonsurgical management, and surgery seemed almost unavoidable at 8 years.
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