BACKGROUND: A comprehensive three-dimensional echocardiography based approach is
applied to preoperative mitral valve (MV) analysis in patients with ischemic mitral …

The diagnosis or exclusion of mitral valve prolapse is one of the most common challenges
presented to any echocardiographic laboratory. Implicit in the request that the …

Posterior displacement of the mitral valve with billowing into the left atrium has been the
major echocardiographic criterion used for the diagnosis of mitral valve prolapse (MVP) …

The narrowest central flow region of a jet is defined as the vena contracta. This term is
applied also to the contracted zone of the Doppler color flow image of a jet at its passage …

In this issue of JASE, Magne et al 1 continue their previous work using echocardiography to
analyze outcomes of mitral valve repair for ischemic mitral regurgitation, demonstrating that …

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

We tested the hypothesis that the vena contracta (VC) cross-sectional area in patients with
mitral regurgitation (MR) can be reproducibly measured by real-time 3-dimensional (3D) …

BACKGROUND: Color Doppler jet area (CDJA) is an important measure used to classify
mitral regurgitation (MR) severity. The investigators hypothesized that the presence and …

Mitral regurgitation (MR) is a major determinant of outcome in cardiac surgery. The location
and mechanism of mitral lesions determine the approach to various repairs and their …

Objectives: We sought to assess the value of transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) using
standardized imaging planes for the functional analysis of mitral regurgitation (MR) as well …