Treatment for Mitral Regurgitation

Not surprisingly, curing MR does not cure the myocardial infarctions or dilated cardiomyopathy that caused the MR in the first place. [...]restoration of mitral competence in this disease does not convincingly improve longevity, although it does improve quality of life (8-10). [...]surgery does improve symptoms in some but not all cases. [...]the bar for treating this disease is much lower than it is for primary MR. Accordingly, it is harder to draw conclusions from the paper by Glower et al.