The range of pathologies producing regurgitant mitral valve dysfunction is broad (table 1)
and the condition may be met in virtually any medical speciality. As echocardiography is the …

Methods Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and left ventriculography were each
performed in 72 patients to compare the two techniques and a semi-quantitative index …

The mitral valve echocardiogram in patients with solitary mitral regurgitation is, in general,
characteristically different from normal healthy subjects. The amplitude of motion of the …

Objectives: The ability to detect residual regurgitation is important in the management of
patients after mitral valve repair. We performed a study of 264 patients to determine the risk …

Mitral valve regurgitation is a relatively common and important heart valve lesion in clinical
practice and adequate assessment is fundamental to decision on management, repair or …

The effect of general anesthesia on the severity of mitral regurgitation (MR) was examined in
43 patients with moderate or severe MR who underwent preoperative and intraoperative …

The correlation between Doppler and contrast angiographic estimation of severity of mitral
regurgitation was assessed retrospectively in 60 patients with native mitral valve disease …

A satisfactory method for measuring the severity of valvular regurgitation would provide
important information and prove valuable for clinical decisionmaking in patients with …

Measurements of mitral and aortic valve flows were obtained with two-dimensional Doppler
echocardiography in 25 patients with isolated mitral (n= 19) or aortic (n= 6) regurgitation and …

OBJECTIVE--To study the prevalence and the characteristics of physiological valve
regurgitation. DESIGN--Pulsed wave Doppler echocardiography, continuous wave Doppler …