A 78-year-old patient with severe mitral regurgitation has successfully undergone the MitraClip procedure, marking a ...

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

Performing exercise Doppler echocardiography may be useful to clarify symptoms of dyspnea or the etiology of acute pulmonary edema in patients with LV dysfunction. Ischemic mitral regurgitation is ...

Circulation. 2020;49a, 53a). Echocardiography can accurately determine not only the presence of mitral regurgitation, but also the severity and usually the etiology, based on imaging of the mitral ...

Diastolic mitral regurgitation can occur in the setting ... nevertheless it can be detected on echocardiography. This phenomenon simply stresses the importance of normal AV synchrony to maintain ...

The septal puncture must be appropriately positioned relative to the mitral valve ... facile in not only in 2D but also 3D echocardiography is critical to the performance of these procedures.

Transthoracic echocardiography showed a hyperdynamic ... A repeat stress echocardiogram showed mild mitral regurgitation at peak stress, with a peak left ventricular outflow-tract gradient of ...

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