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A middle-aged old male with severe mitral regurgitation: Open Heart Surgery and CABG VS No Sugery

This is a HIPAA de-identified open-online-patient-record with initial information in patient's voice, posted here after collecting informed patient consent (form downloadable  Click Here)   by BMJ Elective Student.  The patient is a 59-year-old male who had angina-like chest pain during July 2017 characterizing as “chest burn” and “”mild pressure-like sensation” while walking in the morning on his way to the office. His daughter, who is a medical student, thought of taking him to a cardiologist and performed an ECG and chest x-ray which revealed a cardiomegaly. The cardiologist did ECHO on him and told that has mitral valve regurgitation which was of little concern that time and advised a coronary angiogram (CAG). (Past reports are attached) On the next day, he was taken for a CAG which revealed two blocks (single vessel disease; LCX and LMCA normal; LAD- proximally 30% stenosis; RCA- proximally 60-70% stenosis, PLB 70-80% stenosis at mid part) and then without advising PCI pre