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Abstract
Ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) is mitral incompetence resulting from coronary artery disease in the absence of intrinsic valve lesions. This common complication of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) occurs in 15-64% of patients after this event, and is an independent predictor of future cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
This research work was done to detect the value of ischemic mitral regurgitation as a predictor of prognosis, cardiac adverse events, morbidity and mortality in patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction and demonstrates the value of ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) as a prognostic parameter in patients suffering from acute myocardial infarction. The association between significant ischemic mitral regurgitation and poor prognosis after myocardial infarction in relation to morbidity and mortality, chronic heart failure, or percutaneous or surgical revascularization is well known and thus IMR emerges as an independent predictor of poor prognosis.