Eighty consecutive patients who underwent both left ventriculography and single-plane
transesophageal echocardiography with Doppler color flow mapping were studied to …

To test the role of recently developed biplane transesophageal color Doppler
echocardiography in the assessment of severity of mitral regurgitation, we examined 51 …

Doppler evaluation of mitral regurgitation remains difficult; thus, a head-to-head comparison
of the diagnostic accuracy of Doppler methods was undertaken. Fifty patients with native …

BACKGROUND The ability of transesophageal color Doppler echocardiography to provide
high-resolution images of both cardiac structure and blood flow in real time is advantageous …

Objectives. This study was designed to assess the most accurate and reproducible methods
to quantitate mitral regurgitation by color flow trarasthoracic and transesophageal …

We evaluated 147 patients with adequate color Doppler and angiographic studies for mitral
regurgitation. Sixty-five patients had no mitral regurgitation by both color Doppler and …

Assessment of the severity of mitral regurgitation (MR) by Doppler color flow mapping is
limited by dependence of jet area on hemodynamic and technical variables. The width of the …

Color Doppler echocardiography does not provide adequate information about the severity
of mitral regurgitation in patients with eccentric mitral regurgitation. We have developed a …

Epicardial and transesophageal color Doppler echocardiography are both widely used for
the intraoperative assessment of mitral regurgitation (MR); however, it has not been …

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 …