Disparities in transcatheter mitral valve repair - Disparities being corrected little by little?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan. Electronic address: tsujita@kumamoto-u.ac.jp.

Editorial

Noriaki Tabata et al. Int J Cardiol. 2022.

. 2022 Apr 1:352:52-53.

doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2022.02.011. Epub 2022 Feb 14.

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan. Electronic address: tsujita@kumamoto-u.ac.jp.

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Keywords: Health care system; Mitral regurgitation; Racial disparities; Structural heart disease; Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair.

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Racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in patients undergoing transcatheter mitral edge-to-edge repair.
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