When any disease process decreases the mitral valve area, mitral stenosis (MS) develops. As mitral stenosis progresses over time, the pressure in the left atrium rises. This pressure is ...

In pure mitral stenosis, left ventricular hypertrophy would ... the modified Bernoulli equation as described above. The mitral valve area can be found using the continuity equation and the ...

Aortic-valve disease severe enough to require definitive ... the latter technic was utilized only in patients with pure or predominant mitral stenosis. The results of the two methods do not ...

Ten patients with mitral stenosis and an accompanying early diastolic ... over the septal leaflet of the mitral valve in each case, thereby indicating the presence of insufficiency of the aortic ...

However, people with moderate aortic stenosis can suffer irreversible ... way through the left heart chambers due to a leaky mitral valve — is top of the list. A few years ago, we did a first ...

Mitral valve stenosis is the narrowing of the mitral valve, which limits the forward flow of blood from the left atrium to the left ventricle. It's often due to rheumatic fever, a complication of ...

Percutaneous valve interventions have shown great success in the treatment of mitral stenosis, as well as for aortic and pulmonary valve replacements (e.g., SAPIEN [Edwards, CA, USA], CoreValve ...

If the mitral valve narrows, you can have restricted blood flow. Mitral valve stenosis and mitral valve regurgitation can ...

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