Mechanism of diastolic rumble and presystolic murmur in mitral stenosis.

Presystolic murmur of mitral stenosis revisited.

Presystolic murmur in atrial fibrillation.

tI he lollowing eschange was aicepted tor publication in October l976. Due to space constraints relating to submission of original airticles its publication had to be delayed. To the Editor: Doctors Tavel and Bonner in their recent editorialt have advanced a detailed and compelling refutation of the concept that a presystolic murmur can occur in mitral stenosis with atrial fihrilla-tion. We wel...

The apical systolic murmur in mitral stenosis.

The purpose of this work was to determine how reliable a guide an apical systolic murmur can be to the finding at mitral valvotomy of incidental mitral regurgitation complicating dominant mitral stenosis. The history of the systolic murmur in mitral stenosis is a confused one, since general agreement was not reached about the timing of systolic and diastolic murmurs in mitral stenosis for nearl...

Diastolic murmurs in the presence of Starr-Edwards mitral prosthesis.

Diastolic murmurs associated with the Starr-Edwards mitral prosthesis have not been described previously. In this report, five patients with mitral prostheses are described in whom apical mid-diastolic and presystolic murmurs resulted from two different causes. Three patients had clots obstructing the prosthetic orifice. The other two had normally functioning protheses and moderately severe aor...

Presystolic mitral regurgitation.

A case of mild to moderate aortic regurgitation with presystolic closure of mitral valve and presystolic mitral regurgitation is reported. This echocardiographic finding is a reliable marker of significantly increased LV end-diastolic pressure.