Mitral valve repair provides substantial advantages over mitral valve replacement in patients
with severe mitral regurgitation. However, because of the possibility of persistent …

Excessive residual mitral regurgitation after mitral valve reconstruction or coronary artery
bypass graft surgery may necessitate reoperation. We evaluated a new intraoperative …

The ability of color Doppler flow mapping to provide intraoperative information about mitral
regurgitation (MR) severity and to evaluate adequacy of mitral valve repair was assessed by …

Objectives. This study was designed to assess the accuracy of two-dimensional and Doppler
echocardiography in determining the mechanism of mitral regurgitation, as compared with …

Because mitral valve competence after mitral valve reconstruction is awkward to assess
during this procedure, we evaluated in this respect transesophageal color-coded Doppler …

Intraoperative two-dimensional contrast echocardiography was performed on 29 patients
undergoing open heart surgery to determine the presence of mitral regurgitation before and …

The evaluation and care of patients with mitral regurgitation would be facilitated by an easy,
reproducible and noninvasive method that could quantitate the hemodynamic burden. In this …

Because of the limited orifice size and potential complications associated with prosthetic
valves, native valve repair and reconstruction is an attractive surgical alternative. However …

Surgical valve repair for mitral regurgitation has significant advantages over valve
replacement, but little is known about the mechanisms of its failure. This echocardiographic …

Methods Seventeen patients underwent preoperative transthoracic echocardiography (TTE)
and DSE, intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography, and three-month postoperative …