Repair procedures that preserve a patient's native valve are associated with a lower
perioperative and late mortality, a lower incidence of thromboembolic events, and better …

Mitral valve repair provides substantial advantages over mitral valve replacement in patients
with severe mitral regurgitation. However, because of the possibility of persistent …

The ability of color Doppler flow mapping to provide intraoperative information about mitral
regurgitation (MR) severity and to evaluate adequacy of mitral valve repair was assessed by …

Excessive residual mitral regurgitation after mitral valve reconstruction or coronary artery
bypass graft surgery may necessitate reoperation. We evaluated a new intraoperative …

Tricuspid regurgitation severity was assessed preoperatively with Doppler color flow
mapping and these assessments were compared with surgical findings in 90 patients …

Echocardiography with Doppler color flow mapping is a very useful intraoperative technique
in patients undergoing mitral or tricuspid valve repair. In the patient who is a repair …

Severe tricuspid regurgitation may produce significant morbidity and mortality if not
corrected, but commonly used methods of intraoperative assessment may be unreliable …

Doppler color flow mapping and color-guided conventional Doppler studies were performed
on 119 patients with 126 prosthetic valves (mitral alone in 60, aortic alone in 52 and both …

We have developed real-time two-dimensional Doppler echocardiography, which can
display color flow mapping on a two-dimensional echocardiogram. Intraoperative two …

Intraoperative two-dimensional contrast echocardiography was performed on 29 patients
undergoing open heart surgery to determine the presence of mitral regurgitation before and …