During the past two decades, cardiovascular ultrasonography has benefited from technical
innovations that have allowed it to become a cornerstone of the modern diagnosis of cardiac …

Background Valvular heart disease is the most important cardiac manifestation of systemic
lupus erythematosus. We performed a study to determine the relation of valvular disease to …

Background Although Doppler color flow mapping is widely used to assess the severity of
mitral regurgitation (MR), a simple, accurate, and quantitative marker of MR by color flow …

Objectives. This study sought to determine the prevalence, characteristics, relation to clinical
features and evolution of aortic root disease and valve disease associated with ankylosing …

OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to determine the outcome of trivial or mild
periprosthetic regurgitation (PPR) identified by intraoperative transesophageal …

OBJECTIVE: Traditionally, a hemispheric assumption for the proximal flow convergence
region (PFCR) is used when calculating mitral regurgitant (MR) effective orifice area …

The application of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in the perioperative setting has
been expanding over the past decades. TEE has become increasingly important in the …

To determine the accuracy of the cardiovascular physical examination for the diagnosis of
asymptomatic valvular heart disease (VHD), we prospectively studied 143 subjects, 68 …

Aim To compare the clinical and morphological characteristics of patients with Streptococcus
bovis endocarditis with those of patients with endocarditis caused by other microorganisms …

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