Left Atrial Electrokymography in Mitral Insufficiency in Man A Correlative

Left atrial electrokymography in mitral insufficiency in man; a correlative study by angiocardiography and left heart catheterization.

The relationship of the left atrial border imioveiiicits to underlying pressure and volume changes was investigated in individual human subjects with proved initral insufficiency. Based on thetse observations, criteria for the recognition of hemodynamically significant mitral insufficiency have been revised. Special emphasis is placed on a rapid inward mllovement of the atrial wall during the p...

Selective roentgenographic contrast examination and electrokymography of the left heart in experimental mitral insufficiency.

High-risk Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting and Mitral Valve Replacement in a HIV Positive Patient

Certain subsets of high-risk mitral valve patients are not suitable candidates for transcatheter therapies. The objective of this report is to present a young patient with combined mitral valve and coronary artery disease to illustrate these challenges.In this report, we present a 47-year-old man with longstanding HIV infection who was referred with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) and profound...

The left auricular electrokymogram in mitral stenosis.

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis has created the need for accurate assessment of the morbid anatomy of the diseased valve before operation. Clinical examination of the heart has proved the most reliable means to this end (Baker et al., 1952) but it is common experience that significant degrees of mitral regurgitation occasionally defy clinical detection, and for this reason other metho...

Calcified left atrial myxoma with floppy mitral valve.

A heavily calcified left atrial myxoma in a man aged 53 was diagnosed from the plain chest x-ray film and confirmed by echocardiography. There was also moderate mitral regurgitation caused by a floppy mitral valve. Before a systemic embolus is considered to have arisen from a floppy mitral valve, echocardiography must be performed.