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Mitral Repair Is Not Superior to Replacement in Elderly Patients

St. Johns Mercy Medical Center, Suite R-7040 , 625 South New Ballas Rd, St. Louis, MO 63141

(Email: ebsavage99-3@yahoo.com).

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To the Editor:

Ailawadi and colleagues [1] nicely detail results of mitral repair and replacement in elderly patients. However, I believe their stated conclusions do not reflect the data. I believe their data actually show there is no clear benefit of mitral repair in comparison with replacement in the elderly, according to the following:

(1) This reader assumes that the authors, experts in mitral repair, choose to repair if possible, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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