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Figure 3 Survival free of congestive heart failure or cardiac death (event-free survival) in asymptomatic patients after myocardial infarction (MI) according to the presence (continuous line) or absence (dotted line) of ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) at diagnosis. The event-free survival rates at five years are indicated ± the standard error.