Primary cardiac tumours are quite rare and most of these tumours are benign. In this report, a patient presented with heart failure symptoms attributable to severe mitral valve stenosis. Echocardiography showed a dense left atrial mass causing functional mitral valve obstruction. The morphological and intraoperative presentation was highly suggestive of a myxoma but histopathological examinatio...

Figure 1 – Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE): apical 4-chamber view – image of the calcified nodule on the posterior leaflet (P1–P2 transition), under which lies an aneurysm of the mitral valve in diastole (A) and systole (B) – white arrow. C. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE): mid-esophageal 5-chamber view (0°) – image of saccular aneurysm on the posterior leaflet of the mitral valve (...

Tissue Doppler imaging was used with transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography to determine its clinical usefulness beyond visualization of ventricular wall motion. Thirteen novel applications were found: acoustically difficult transthoracic studies, thrombus, mitral chordal motion, shunt detection using saline contrast, spontaneous echo contrast, intra-aortic balloon pump position and...

A Free-floating ball valve thrombus in the left atrium is a rare clinical entity and has been reported infrequently in Indian literature despite the high incidence of Rheumatic mitral valve stenosis. Early diagnosis and prompt surgical intervention are mandatory otherwise it may lead to catastrophic consequence. We are presenting our experience with one such case which was diagnosed clinically ...

background: mitral valve prolapse (mvp) is now recognized as the most common cardiovalvular abnormality (cva) in the usa, but there has been much less agreement about other aspects of its epidemiology, diagnosis and clinical features. cva analysis still relies mainly on the visual assessment of echocardiographic imaging and manual measurements by experienced cardiologists. so, automating or sem...

Twelve cases of endocardial cushion defect were studied before and after operation with ultrasono-cardiotomography (tomography) cross-sectional echocardiography, two-dimensional echocardiography, B-scan echocardiography) and M-mode scan along a horizontal section of the heart. For comparison, 20 healthy subjects, 18 cases of mitral valvular disease, 4 cases of congestive cardiomyopathy, 1 case ...

A critically ill patient had a major mitral paravalvular leak, failed device closure of the leak, and severe hemolytic anemia after a third mitral valve replacement. Echocardiography showed the Amplatzer occluder device completely displaced and swirled in the left atrial cavity. His condition was greatly improved after a fourth mitral valve replacement.

A 19-year-old male patient was presented with a complaint of palpitation. His physical examination and 12-lead electrocardiogram were normal. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a mobile, chord-like structure, attached to the anterior papillary muscle and ventricular surface of the anterior mitral leaflet moving in the systole into the left ventricular outflow tract (arrow) (Fig. 1). There ...

ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to evaluate the success of PTMC hemodynamically. The hemodynamic data have been evaluated by exercise stress echocardiography in patients with mitral stenosis (MS) following PTMC. MethodWe prospectively studied hemodynamic data in 15 consecutive patients with severe MS who were in NYHA FC two or more. The valve score was less than 9. All the patients underwen...

AIMS The accurate postoperative assessment of mitral valve repair is important not only to document operative outcome, but also to confirm the functional morphology of the repaired valve. METHODS AND RESULTS We assessed 25 consecutive patients following mitral valve repair with transthoracic real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography (RT3DE) and 2-dimensional echocardiography (2DE). We compared...