Assessing the severity of tricuspid regurgitation remains a challenging task, and although
echocardiography is the test of choice, significant limitations of the current recommendations …

Doppler(CD) imaging combines in a single modality the abilities of ultrasound(US) to im-age
tissue and to investigate blood flow. CD images consist of Doppler information that is color …

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 …

OBJECTIVE: Percutaneous mitral repair is rapidly developing as an alternative to cardiac
surgery in select patients. The Evalve percutaneous E2E system uses the MitraClip to …

BACKGROUND In clinical color Doppler examinations, mitral regurgitant jets are often
observed to impinge on the left atrial wall immediately beyond the mitral valve. In …

A large animal model of ischemic mitral regurgitation (MR) that resembles the multiple
presentations of the human disease was developed in sheep. In 76 sheep hearts, the …

OBJECTIVES We sought to examine the feasibility and reliability of quantifying mitral
regurgitation (MR) during exercise by Doppler echocardiography in patients with heart …

Background—In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a spectrum of mitral leaflet abnormalities has
been related to the mechanism of mitral systolic anterior motion (SAM), which causes both …

The effect of general anesthesia on the severity of mitral regurgitation (MR) was examined in
43 patients with moderate or severe MR who underwent preoperative and intraoperative …

Recent studies have attempted to predict the severity of regurgitant lesions from jet size on
Doppler flow maps. Jet size is a function of both regurgitant volume and fluid entrained from …