Table 1.

Study inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Adult patients (≥18 years) underwent conventional MVR	Pediatric patients (<18 years old)
Isolated or combined MVR	MVR for congenital valve disease or anomalies
MVR for native or prosthetic mitral valve disease (redo)	Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery
MVR in elective, urgent, or emergent clinical status	Transcatheter MVR
Postoperative TTE evaluation before hospital discharge	Patients dead in‐hospital in which at least one postoperative TTE was not available

Abbreviations: MVR, mitral valve replacement; TTE, transthoracic echocardiography.