In prosthetic or paravalvular prosthetic mitral regurgitation, transthoracic color Doppler flow
mapping can sometimes fail to detect the regurgitant jet within the left atrium because of the …

To test the value of acceleration flow signals proximal to the leaking orifice in assessing the
severity of prosthetic mitral valve regurgitation, 39 consecutive patients undergoing left …

Regurgitant blood flow of mitral valves was studied by transesophageal Doppler color flow
echocardiographic imaging in 11 healthy volunteers (Group 1), 25 cardiac patients with a …

BACKGROUND To evaluate normal regurgitant characteristics of St. Jude (SJ) and
Medtronic-Hall (MH) mitral valves, four sizes (25-31 mm) of each were studied in a pulsatile …

This study determined the relative value of transthoracic and transesophageal color Doppler
flow imaging to systolic flow patterns in the left atrium in different types of mechanical …

Prosthetic shadowing of the left atrium may prevent detection of mitral regurgitation during
transthoracic echocardiography. In 60 patients with mitral valves, Carpentier-Edwards (n …

OBJECTIVES: We sought to characterize a region of apparent systolic flow resembling mitral
regurgitation (MR) in patients with mechanical disk mitral prostheses as artifact …

The usefulness of two-dimensional color-Doppler flow-imaging (2D Doppler) in the
detection, localization, and quantitation of bioprosthetic mitral valve regurgitation is …

Transesophageal color flow Doppler findings are reported in 36 patients with a St. Jude
Medical mechanical mitral valve prosthesis who had no auscultatory evidence for prosthetic …

Two hundred Carpentier-Edwards, Björk-Shiley, and Starr-Edwards prostheses in 173
patients were examined. Sixteen (16%) in the aortic and 24 (25%) in the mitral position were …