Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation.
Ischemic mitral regurgitation: Focusing on the imbalance of two intraventricular forces
... Ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) is a frequent complication after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and has a worse prognosis, regardless of the ...
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Comparative results of repair of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation (IMR): Conventional against Trans-Septal Approach
... Objective Ischemic mitral regurgitation is common and increases mortality, even when ...of mitral valve repair in patients with moderate or more ...of mitral valve repair in ...
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Left Ventricular Reconstruction and Mitral Valve Annuloplasty Combined with Papillary Muscle Relocation for Severe Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation
... of ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) ...of mitral regurgitation (MR) following MAP have been observed in patients with a dilated left ventricle (LV), and the surgical results of MAP ...
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Algorithms for formal stratification of patients with ischemic mitral regurgitation
... for mitral valve repair performed as a con- comitant procedure with surgical revascularization: coronary artery bypass grafting + mitral valve re- pair (CABG+MVRep) or with CABG only, is hard- ly ...chronic ...
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Efficacy of chordal cutting in alleviating ischemic mitral regurgitation: insights from 3-dimensional echocardiography
... Ischemic Mitral regurgitation (IMR) continues to be a complex surgical problem. Choosing the most optimal therapy remains a challenging issue in cardiac surgery. There is wide variation in the ...
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The extent of papillary muscle approximation affects mortality and durability of mitral valve repair for ischemic mitral regurgitation
... hypothermia. Mitral annuloplasty was performed for all the patients who were indicated for ...nificant mitral valve tethering underwent PMA, which we adopted to correct tethering by gathering the papillary ...
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Repair or replace ischemic mitral regurgitation during coronary artery bypass grafting? A meta-analysis
... 0.67-1.14; P = 0.31), suggesting late mortality was not sig- nificantly reduced following repair. Further, heterogeneity was moderate (I 2 = 30 %). It was noted that ten of the studies included patients with different ...
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Predictors and prognosis of early ischemic mitral regurgitation in the era of primary percutaneous coronary revascularisation
... From January 2006 to July 2012, 174 consecutive pa- tients who were referred to our tertiary care university center for primary PCI within 12 h after symptom onset, who underwent early (1 – 3 days) and late echocardio- ...
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Echocardiographic Evaluation of Papillary Muscle function in Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation.
... the ischemic papillary muscle to shorten. Thus, a portion of each mitral valve leaflet everts into the left atrium and the valve becomes incompetent if the ischemia is only transitory, as during an episode ...
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Echocardiographic assessment of ischemic mitral regurgitation
... systole, mitral leaflet closing is mediated by the interplay of closing forces [6] exerted by LV intracavitary systolic pressure on the ventricular sur- face of the mitral leaflets versus tethering forces, ...
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Is mitral valve repair superior to replacement for chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation with left ventricular dysfunction?
... For Which Patients Is Repair or Replacement Appropriate? Although the applicability of MVP is easily appreciated in the subset of patients with chronic ischemia and annular dilation, it is noteworthy that 21.1% ...
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A Mathematical Evaluation of Mitral Regurgitation Severity with EROA
... At present interest in color Doppler imaging for vena contracta for the assessment of mitral re gurgitation is increasing progressively [1], [2] and [3]. The vena contracta is the narrowest part of the regurgitant ...
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Assessment of Prothrombotic burden in patients with Rheumatic Heart Disease using plasma D-dimer assay.
... Of mitral and Aortic valve disorders, rheumatic mitral stenosis is most commonly associated with thromboembolism, irrespective of co- existence of ...size, mitral calcification or severity of ...
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Ventricular Approach for Functional Mitral Regurgitation in Cardiomyopathy
... functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) in cardiomyopathy is leaflet tethering caused by displacement of the papillary muscles (PM) due to left ventricular ...or ischemic cardiomyopathy ...
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Relation of mitral valve morphology and motion to mitral regurgitation severity in patients with mitral valve prolapse
... mm) was not associated with significant MR (OR 0.9; 95% CI 0.2-3.4) (Table 2). On multivariate analysis, the only feature statistically associated with significant MR was the non-coaptation distance (OR 7.9 per 1 mm ...
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Quantitative analysis of mitral valve morphology in atrial functional mitral regurgitation using real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography atrial functional mitral regurgitation
... both mitral leaflets and valvular tenting volume were signifi- cantly greater in the MR+ ...considered mitral adaptation, and has been observed in patients with LV remodeling and MA dilatation in ...
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Managing mitral regurgitation: focus on the MitraClip device
... As a logical extension of the Alfieri edge-to-edge MVR technique, the MitraClip percutaneous MVR technique has emerged as an option for mitral repair in high-risk surgical patients. Data from a variety of sources ...
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The Structural Impact of Aortic Valve Replacement on Mitral Regurgitation
... Several important aspects of our study limit its interpretation. Small sample size decreases statistical power, and indeed numerical trends in valve sizes and atrial fibrillation remained indeterminate. The cohort of ...
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Mitral valve surgery for mitral regurgitation caused by Libman-Sacks endocarditis: a report of four cases and a systematic review of the literature
... thickened mitral valve leaflets and a small vegetation on the posterior mitral valve ...underwent mitral valve repair in March ...posterior mitral valve leaflet was performed, followed by ...
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Intraventricular thrombus and severe mitral regurgitation in the acute phase of takotsubo cardiomyopathy: two case reports
... develop apical thrombus in the acute phase. In our pa- tient 1, the initial TTE showed only apical ballooning and akinesia without any evidence of LV apical thrombus; however, thrombus formation occurred after 1 week. ...
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