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Valvular regurgitation represents an important cause of cardiovascular morbidity and
mortality. Echocardiography has become the primary non-invasive imaging method for the …

Valvular regurgitation represents an important cause of cardiovascular morbidity and
mortality. Imaging is pivotal in the evaluation of native valve regurgitation and …

Mitral and tricuspid are increasingly prevalent. Doppler echocardiography not only detects
the presence of regurgitation but also permits to understand mechanisms of regurgitation …

Background—Longitudinal studies of mitral valve prolapse (MVP) progression among
unselected individuals in the community, including those with nondiagnostic MVP …

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 …

The contradictory findings of recent prospective randomized controlled trials assessing the
impact of percutaneous edge-to-edge repair in patients with functional or secondary mitral …

Although the overall survival of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) has improved
significantly in the last decades, a non-negligible proportion of DCM patients still shows an …

Acute rheumatic fever and its chronic sequela, rheumatic heart disease (RHD), pose major
health problems globally, and remain the most common cardiovascular disease in children …

The echocardiographic assessment of mitral valve regurgitation (MR) by characterizing
specific morphological features and grading its severity is still challenging. Analysis of MR …