Mitral Stenosis with Long-Lasting Congestive Heart Failure or Auricular Fibrillation

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Abstract
THE outlook for the patient with mitral stenosis in whom objective evidence of congestive heart failure or auricular fibrillation has already developed has generally been considered grave. Studies have indicated that the average survival after onset of congestive heart failure or auricular fibrillation is in the range of three to five years.1 2 3 However, observation of patients in the cardiac clinic of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital who have survived for as long as a quarter of a century after the onset of these complications has posed a question of the frequency of such prolonged survival. Accordingly, the records of the . . .