Assessment Prior to stress testing, a complete echocardiogram should be performed at rest, particularly in patients in whom coronary artery bypass grafting is planned and mitral valve repair ...

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Background Although the prognostic implications of severe mitral regurgitation (MR) are well recognised, they are less clear ...

The model was able to automatically identify moderate and severe mitral valve regurgitation with high precision. "Our deep ...

The two most important measurements made on echocardiography are the pressure half-time and the mitral valve area. Because transmitral flow velocities can be directly measured with Doppler ...

Transthoracic echocardiography showed multiple vegetations on the anterior mitral leaflet, a mobile vegetation on the surface of the aortic noncoronary cusp and another on the tricuspid valve.

Members of the team spoke with the News about their experiences performing the BATMAN procedure and its future implications.

The area of a normal mitral valve is 4 to 6 cm 2. This area is sufficient to allow a great deal of blood to flow from the left atrium (LA) to the left ventricle. When any disease process decreases ...