Table 1.

The timing of repair and the Mortality Rate in post-MI VSR patients.

Study	Type of Repair	Timing of Repair	Mortality rate
Killen et al., 1997 [29]	Surgery	24 h	51.4%
		1-5 days	47.1%,
Di Summa et al., 1997 [24]	Surgery	1 ± 1.41 days	87.5%
		within 1 week	44.4%
		later	0%
Bouchart et al., 1998 [32]	Surgery	Less than 1 week	33%
		More than 1 week	6.2%
Dalrymple-Hay et al., 1998 [26]	Surgery	First day	73%
		After 2 days	16%
		After 4 weeks	0%
Cerin et al., 2003 [36]	Surgery	Within the first week	75%
		After 3 weeks	16%
Mantovani et al., 2006 [32]	Surgery	Within 3 days	52%
		After 3 days	11%
Coskun et al., 2009 [37]	Surgery	Within 3 days	100%
		After 36 days	0%
Arnaoutakis et al., 2012 [34]	Surgery	7 days	54.1%
		>7 days	18.4%
Papalexopoulou et al., 2013 [25]	Surgery	from >3 days to within 4 weeks	52.4%
		from 1 week to after 4 weeks	7.56%
Trivedi et al., 2015 [35]	Percutaneous closure Surgery	<21 days	Significantly more for Percutaneous closure
		>21 days
Cinq-Mars et al., 2016 [33]	Surgery	2.74 days	Not Survived
		4.44 days	Survived
Malhotra et al., 2017 [28]	Surgery	<3 days	76%
		>3 days	26%