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To the Editor, In a recently published Editorial to the new 2014 ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Valvular Heart Disease, its authors note that ‘since in asymptomatic patients decisions on timing of intervention is made primarily on the basis of left ventricular size and function and quantitative evaluation of mitral regurgitation severity, accurate measurements of the left ventricular function, as well as the degree of MR, are essential.’1 This is now even more important than before because the guidelines consider surgery …
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