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Figure 4 Survival of patients with mitral regurgitation due to flail leaflets adjusted for age, gender, ejection fraction and symptoms at baseline, and separating at the fourth year after diagnosis those patients with and those without postdiagnosis atrial fibrillation. Note the excess mortality in patients with follow-up atrial fibrillation. SR = sinus rhythm; AF = atrial fibrillation; F-U = follow-up.
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