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Which percentage of mitral valve regurgitation patients require valve repair or replacement surgery?
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Depends: It depends on the severity of the mr patients have and what their ages are. If you take the general usa population, all adults over age 21, some degree of mr is present in >80% (most of it trivial or very mild). Among that unselected group.
Answered 3/14/2019
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