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Influence of involvement of anterior leaflet versus posterior leaflet on residual regurgitation as assessed by transesophageal echocardiography in patients undergoing valve repair for mitral regurgitation due to mitral valve prolapse
... of anterior leaflet prolapse have been less favourable due to more complex mechanisms of valvular incompetence and more demanding repairing ...the anterior leaflet is more difficult to repair ...
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Comparison of modified total leaflet preservation, posterior leaflet preservation, and no leaflet preservation techniques in mitral valve replacement – a retrospective study
... the leaflet of the A2 area was resected routinely and the remaining tissue connected to the main chordae tendineae was trimmed and preserved in a “but- ton-like” ...the anterior leaflet was ...
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Stress echocardiographic assessment of mitral valve function repaired using rough-zone trimming
... We used the RZT to repair prolapse sites that were located in the anterior leaflet. Prolapsed sites were resected in the shape of an obtuse triangle and confined to the rough zone. The resected height of ...
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Intraventricular thrombus and severe mitral regurgitation in the acute phase of takotsubo cardiomyopathy: two case reports
... an ejection fraction (EF) of 67.8%, severe localized apical hypokinesis with hyperkinesis of the basal segment, and grade 3 severe MR. Further two-dimensional echocardio- graphic examination with speckle tracking on the ...
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“V-PLASTY”: a novel technique to reconstruct pulmonary valvular and annular stenosis in patients with right ventricular outflow tract obstruction
... the anterior pulmonary leaf- let with a transannular patch of bovine pericardium in 10 consecutive patients who had non-dysplastic valve structure and mild or moderate pulmonary valvular/an- nular ...pulmonary ...
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Ventricular Septal Defect With Secondary Left Ventricular–to–Right Atrial Shunt Is Associated With a Higher Risk for Infective Endocarditis and a Lower Late Chance of Closure
... spared anterior leaflet from aneurysmal trans- ...the anterior and the septal leaflets were incorporated into double-sac aneu- rysmal transformation, the LV-RA shunt could be ob- served through the ...
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The connection between the papillary muscles and leaflets of the tricuspid valve
... The next step in the investigation was to study the number of tendinous chords attaching to the margin of leaflets and to the ventricular surface of it (Fig. 7). The number of tendinous chords attached to the mar- gin of ...
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Three Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography as a Predictive Tool to Assess the Outcome of Mitral Valve Plasty
... the anterior leaflet (AML) and the posterior leaflet ...aortic leaflet, is in general longer, has a trapezoidal shape, a smoother surface than the PML and no distinctive fissures between its ...
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Trends in mitral valve prolapse: a tertiary care center experience in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
... The anterior leaflet was the most common leaflet prolapsed, and concomitant MR was mostly of a trivial or mild ...Posterior leaflet mitral prolapse, while less prevalent, was significantly ...
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Ebstein's Anomaly: Anatomo-echocardiographic correlation
... septal leaflet (asterisk). Thickening of the free portion of the leaflet (arrow) is ...AL: Anterior leaflet; PL: Posterior leaflet; SL: Septal leaflet; ASD: Atrial septal defect; ...
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Regurgitant leak from the area between the stent post and the sewing ring of a stented bovine pericardial valve implanted in the aortic valve position
... Additional file 1: The regurgitation before administration of protamine. Before administration of protamine, examination with color flow Doppler (CFD) showed turbulent flow (red arrow) from outside to inside at the ...
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Leaflet Preparation and Validation Procedures
... multi-lingual leaflet is proposed there should be a clear demarcation between the different languages used; all the information provided in each language should be ...
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Low literacy and written drug information : information seeking, leaflet evaluation and preferences, and roles for images
... patient leaflet can be improved, and in particular how images could be ...The leaflet should be shorter, and improved in terms of organisation, legibility and ...
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The design, development, and evaluation of a prototypic, prosthetic venous valve
... After completing the initial design, the valve was fabri- cated at 2× scale and inserted into an in vitro flow loop fea- turing a vertical column, steady flow system with water as the test fluid as previously described ...
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A Study of Structure of the Human Tricupsid Valve Apparatus in 50 Autopsy Specimens
... The number was approximately 20 and they were of different lengths and thickness. They originated from a papillary muscle either directly from the apex of the muscle or from small nipples, which were usually on their ...
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Relation of mitral valve morphology and motion to mitral regurgitation severity in patients with mitral valve prolapse
... displacement ≥ 2 mm across the annulus plane in the parasternal long-axis view was mandatory for the diag- nosis of MVP. Patients in whom MR might be explained by mechanisms other than prolapse were excluded: left ...
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Anterior mitral leaflet length and mitral annulus diameter impact the echocardiographic outcome after isolated myectomy
... the anterior mitral valve ...the leaflet, preventing its billowing and shortening the AML [15– ...for leaflet extension is the assumption that the AML will be pushed away from the LVOT like a ...
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Effect of leaflet-to-chordae contact interaction on computational mitral valve evaluation
... that leaflet-to-chordae contact interaction plays an important role in computational MV evaluation, specifically in quantitating the degree of leaflet coaptation directly related to the severity of mitral ...
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Rheumatic Aortic Valve Disease with Mitral Stenosis—A Case Report
... pears to be the hallmark of a congenital bicuspid aortic valve. A normal tricuspid aortic valve, on the other hand, closes without cusp folding and therefore does not produce multiple diastolic echo sources along the ...
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Surgical treatment of primary cardiac valve tumor: early and late results in eight patients
... on leaflet in 2 patients (25 %), resection of tumor and native valvuloplasty in 2 patients (25 %), resection of neoplasm and replacement of native valve with prosthetic valve in 4 patients (50 ...noncoronary ...
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