Although intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is used to guide mitral
valve reconstructive procedures, the effects of hemodynamic alterations accompanying …

Because mitral valve competence after mitral valve reconstruction is awkward to assess
during this procedure, we evaluated in this respect transesophageal color-coded Doppler …

Mitral valve prolapse has been diagnosed by two-dimensional echocardiographic criteria
with surprising frequency in the general population, even when preselected normal subjects …

Ischemic mitral regurgitation is an important consequence of LV remodeling after myocardial
infarction. Echocardiographic diagnosis and assessment of ischemic mitral regurgitation are …

Background. Appropriate patient selection for surgical repair of the mitral valve depends on
the specific location and mechanism of regurgitation, which, in turn, has necessitated a more …

Mitral valve prolapse by current echocardiographic criteria can be diagnosed with surprising
frequency in the general population, even when preselected normal subjects are examined …

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 …

To determine whether Doppler color flow mapping could be used to quantify changing levels
of regurgitant flow and define the technical variables that influence the size of color flow …

Background: Prior studies have reconstructed mitral regurgitant flow in three dimensions
displaying gray scale renditions of the jets, which were difficult to differentiate from …

To date, the relation between mitral stenosis (MS) and other associated cardiac valvular
lesions has been reported by angiography and surgical pathologic study in patients with …