Open Access“RFEF” and mitral regurgitation jet direction: surrogate markers for likelihood of left ventricle reverse remodeling in patients with moderate chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation
Author(s) -
Sumbul Siddiqui,
Amber Malhotra,
Komal Shah,
Pankaj Garg,
Pranav Sharma,
Vivek Wadhawa,
Kartik Patel,
Anand Shukla
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery/indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 0973-7723
pISSN - 0970-9134
DOI - 10.1007/s12055-018-0717-0
Subject(s) - ejection fraction , ventricle , medicine , mitral regurgitation , cardiology , ventricular remodeling , cardiac surgery , mitral valve , heart failure
Surgical management of moderate chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation (CIMR) is controversial. We propose a simplified classification of moderate CIMR based on regurgitant fraction (RF), ejection fraction (EF), and jet direction (central/eccentric) to predict left ventricle (LV) remodeling and identify patient subsets which need mitral valve (MV) repair along with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).