A 44-year-old housewife was found to have coarctation of the abdominal aorta secondary to Takayasu's arteritis. Since she also had mitral stenosis, possible etiological relation between Takayasu's arteritis and mitral stenosis is suspected.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess exercise-induced changes in stroke volume and their main determinants in mitral stenosis. BACKGROUND The mechanisms of the stroke volume response to exercise in mitral stenosis are not clearly established. METHODS Twenty-seven patients with mitral stenosis, aged 47 +/- 13 years, and 10 healthy control subjects, aged 46 +/- 11 years, were examin...

IN RECENT YEARS clinicians have had to think of histoplasmosis as well as tuberculosis when confronted with diffuse nodular calcific shadows in the lung parenchyma. Disseminated bone formation in the lung is rare, though a form associated with mitral stenosis has been recognized for many years. It is our purpose to review our experience with 4 eases of disseminated bone formation in mitral sten...

Abbreviations: ACC/AHA, American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association; AF, atrial fibrillation; ANP, Atrial Natriuretic Peptide; AS, aortic stenosis; BNP, Brain Natriuretic Peptide; EF, ejection fraction; ESC, European Society of Cardiology; LA, left atrium; MR, mitral regurgitation; MS, mitral stenosis; MVA, mitral valve area; NT-Pro-BNP, N terminal-pro brain natriuretic peptide; P...

A 37-year-old woman had progressive shortness of breath and mitral stenosis was diagnosed. Despite the unusual finding of undegenerated septum primum on echocardiography and angiography, percutaneous transseptal mitral commissurotomy was successfully performed in this patient with rheumatic mitral stenosis under the guidance of online transesophageal echocardiography.

OBJECTIVE To examine the pathophysiological significance of adrenomedullin in the pulmonary circulation by investigating the relation between plasma concentrations of adrenomedullin and central haemodynamics in patients with mitral stenosis. METHODS Plasma concentrations of adrenomedullin in blood samples obtained from the femoral vein, pulmonary artery, left atrium, and aorta were measured b...

The movements of two ultrasound echo signals, believed to arise from the anterior mitral leaflet and from the mitral ring, were studied in 30 normal subjects and in 100 heart-catheterization patients. Fifty patients had proven mitral stenosis. The echo from the anterior mitral leaflet is shown to have a complex pattern of movement. This pattern is analyzed into the opening and closing movements...

Described herein are five patients who had double left-sided cardiac valve replacement for mitral and aortic valve stenosis resulting from two different etiologies: rheumatic heart disease, the cause of the mitral stenosis, and congenital heart disease (bicuspid valve), the underlying cause of the aortic stenosis.

Mitral stenosis is especially common in women of child bearing age. Of our first 350 mitral valvotomies, 64 per cent. were women below the age of 45 and i8 of these women were pregnant. There are several reports in the literature of the value of mitral valvotomy during pregnancy.6, 7, 8. 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 25 Organic heart disease, especially mitral stenosis, is one of the leading causes of ma...