Echocardiography was used to study left ventricular size and contraction in 90 patients with isolated mitral valve disease 47 patients with mitral stenosis, 26 with mixed mitral valve disease and 89 with mitral regurgitation. Left ventricular measurements included the end-diastolic internal dimension (LVIDd), mural thickness (PWTd), an index of circumferential myocardial contraction fractional ...

Supplementary material (Videos 1 and 2) is available at EJCTS online. Video 1: Transoesophageal echocardiography showing a blockade of one of the leaflets of the mitral valve prosthesis due to a giant pannus formation with a resulting stenosis and insufficiency. Video 2: Fluoroscopy of aortic valve (top) and mitral valve (bottom) prostheses. There is an almost normal motion amplitude of one lea...

Echocardiography was used to study left ventricular size and contraction in 90 patients with isolated mitral valve disease 47 patients with mitral stenosis, 26 with mixed mitral valve disease and 89 with mitral regurgitation. Left ventricular measurements included the end-diastolic internal dimension (LVIDd), mural thickness (PWTd), an index of circumferential myocardial contraction fractional ...

This report presents a patient with an unusual clinical course associated with a mitral "mass" recorded by M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiography. The "mass" was confirmed at operation to be redundant myxomatous mitral valve leaflets. The problem of echocardiographic resolution in the setting of mitral valve prolapse and of the differential diagnosis of mitral mass is discussed in detail.

A 69-year-old female patient was admitted to our hospital for further cardiac evaluation with symptoms of dyspnea (New York Heart Association class III) and peripheral edema. Her history revealed artificial mitral valve replacement due to mitral stenosis 8 years earlier, severe chronic pulmonary hypertension, and severe tricuspid valve incompetence. Electrocardiogram showed normofrequent atrial...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate echocardiography accuracy in performing and obtaining images for dynamical three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction. METHODS Three-dimensional (3D) image reconstruction was obtained in 20 consecutive patients who underwent transesophageal echocardiography. A multiplanar 5 MHz transducer was used for 3D reconstruction. RESULTS Twenty patients were studied consecutively. Th...

We present a case of an individual who presented with acute severe mitral regurgitation in the setting of an inferior ST elevation myocardial infarction. Both transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography demonstrated a posteriorly directed eccentric jet of severe mitral regurgitation with flail anterior mitral valve leaflet attached presumably to the anterior papillary muscle. Intraoperat...

A 78-year old male patient was referred because of progressive dyspnoea. A diastolic murmur was detected and echocardiography showed two intracardiac masses (Fig. 1A). A computed tomography scan confirmed massive calcification of the entire mitral valve (Fig. 1B and D). Associated with valve degenerative processes, mitral valve calcification implies challenging valve replacement procedures and ...

A 69-year-old female patient was admitted to our hospital for further cardiac evaluation with symptoms of dyspnea (New York Heart Association class III) and peripheral edema. Her history revealed artificial mitral valve replacement due to mitral stenosis 8 years earlier, severe chronic pulmonary hypertension, and severe tricuspid valve incompetence. Electrocardiogram showed normofrequent atrial...