Background In patients with mitral or tricuspid valve regurgitation, evaluation of regurgitant
severity is essential for determining the need for surgery. While transthoracic …

A fifth of patients with primary degenerative mitral regurgitation continue to present with de
novo ventricular dysfunction following surgery and higher rates of heart failure, morbidity …

Dieses Dokument der DGP ersetzt die Empfehlungen von 1998 und 2013. Anhand der
aktuellen Datenlage und einer Konsensuskonferenz wurden Empfehlungen zu Indikationen …

Background The optimal management of chronic severe primary degenerative mitral
regurgitation (MR) is to repair the valve but identification of the optimal timing of surgery …

Background Patients who survive a myocardial infarction have progressive cardiac
dysfunction and ventricular remodeling. Mitral regurgitation is often diagnosed in these …

Stress echocardiography (SE) is a very useful method in clinical practice, because it offers
important information of both the patient's functional status and hemodynamic changes …

Background Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is the reference-standard for
biventricular assessment and has potential diagnostic and prognostic advantages in the …

There is evidence that perfusing the heart with a heart and lung machine is less injurious
than cross-clamping the aorta and administering cardioplegia during cardiac surgery …

Primary degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR) is a disease of increasing prevalence. Its
optimal management is surgical repair, but surgery timings remain controversial. Current …

Objectives We analyzed whether some echocardiographic parameters are good predictors
of functional result after mitral valve correction surgery. Background Ejection fraction was not …