Because of the limited orifice size and potential complications associated with prosthetic
valves, native valve repair and reconstruction is an attractive surgical alternative. However …

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

We have used contrast two-dimensional echocardiography in the intraoperative evaluation
of aortic and mitral regurgitation in 35 patients undergoing cardiac operations. All of them …

Whenever possible, precise mitral valve repair is preferable to valve replacement. Present
methods for intraoperative detection of mitral regurgitation, primarily hemodynamic …

Mitral valve repair has become the operation of choice for mitral regurgitation. It is often
technically more demanding than valve replacement. The role of echocardiography has now …

Intraoperative two-dimensional echocardiography is a new diagnostic and monitoring
technique that provides immediate information, unavailable from routine hemodynamic …

A formal collaboration was established in 1999 between the authors, an echocardiologist
(PMS) and a cardiothoracic surgeon (AAR), to evaluate and provide state-of-the-art surgical …

To compare transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography in the clinical
assessment of left-sided valvular regurgitation, 118 patients who underwent both …

The purpose of this prospective multicenter study of 350 consecutive patients who were
accepted for mitral valve surgery because of severe regurgitation, was to assess the value of …

This prospective study was conducted to ascertain whether echocardiographic evaluation
could provide more insight into the genesis of mitral regurgitation (MR) before surgery. All …