{"id":39947,"date":"2013-11-18T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T16:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39947"},"modified":"2013-11-18T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T17:42:10","slug":"mitral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2013\/11\/18\/mitral\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacement Versus Repair for Mitral Valve Regurgitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surgery is thought to be life-saving for people who have ischemic mitral regurgitation, but it is unknown whether surgical repair or surgical replacement of the mitral valve is the better procedure. Repair is thought to result in fewer preoperative deaths and replacement is thought to have better long-term outcomes with a reduced incidence of recurrent mitral regurgitation. In recent years, many surgeons have grown to favor repair.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1312808?query=featured_home\">a trial<\/a> presented at the American Heart Association meeting in Dallas and published simultaneously in the\u00a0<em>New England Journal of Medicine,\u00a0<\/em>members of the Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network randomized 251 patients with severe ischemic mitral regurgitation to either repair or replacement.<\/p>\n<p>At one year there was no difference in the primary end point, left ventricular end-systolic volume index, between the two groups. The mean change from baseline was -6.6 per square meter of body-surface area in the repair group and -6.8 in the replacement group. Mortality was not significantly different, either: 14.3% in the repair group versus 17.6% in the replacement group (HR 0.79, CI 0.42-1.47, p=0.45). However, moderate or severe recurrence of mitral regurgitation occurred significantly more often in the repair group: 32.6% versus 2.3% (p&lt;0.001).<\/p>\n<p>The authors wrote that their &#8220;findings contradict much of the published literature on this topic, which reports several advantages to mitral-valve repair over replacement, including lower operative mortality, improved left ventricular function, and higher rates of long-term survival.&#8221; One partial explanation may be that &#8220;evolution of valve replacement with chordal sparing may account for the improved results.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgery is thought to be life-saving for people who have ischemic mitral regurgitation, but it is unknown whether surgical repair or surgical replacement of the mitral valve is the better procedure. Repair is thought to result in fewer preoperative deaths and replacement is thought to have better long-term outcomes with a reduced incidence of recurrent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[791,2061,2062],"class_list":["post-39947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiac-surgery","tag-mitral-regurgitation","tag-mitral-repair","tag-mitral-replacement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}