In order to investigate relations between mitral valve closure and mechanical events at the onset of left ventricular systole, simultaneous M mode echocardiograms and phonocardiograms were recorded with the apexcardiogram and its first differential (dA/dt) in 25 normal subjects and 88 patients with heart disease. The timing of mitral and aortic valve closure and the onset and peak rate of rise ...

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...

Valvular heart disease has significant effect on the outcome of practically any kind of surgical procedure involving general or regional anaesthesia. The most frequently encountered cardiac valve lesions produce pressure overload (mitral stenosis, aortic stenosis) or volume load (mitral regurgitation, aortic regurgitation) on the left atrium or left ventricle. Anaesthetic management during the ...

BACKGROUND Infective endocarditis rarely causes mitral valve stenosis. When present, it has the potential to cause severe hemodynamic decompensation and death. There are only 15 reported cases in the literature of mitral prosthetic valve bacterial endocarditis causing stenosis by obstruction. This case is even more unusual due to the mechanism by which functional mitral stenosis occurred. CAS...

MUCH has been written relative to the physiologic abnormalities produced by mitral stenosis and insufficiency. Most of the data and the concepts derived therefrom have been obtained by right heart catheterization.'--8 The introduction of left heart and combined heart catheterization9-19 has greatly enhanced the value of physiologic study in patients with rheumatic mitral valve disease and has p...

The early observations on mitral stenosis were largely made in France and Britain, and in the past its clinical diagnosis was probably more discussed than that of any other form of valvular disease of the heart. As the study of morbid anatomy is much older than the practice of auscultation, the lesion of mitral stenosis was described more than a hundred and fifty years before its clinical recog...

In order to establish a new echocardiographic index of the severity of mitral stenosis, left ventricular echocardiograms were digitised using manual tracing and a computer. The instantaneous left ventricular dimension was measured in 15 patients with mitral stenosis. The peak rate of change of left ventricular dimension (peak dD/dt) and the normalised peak rate (peak dD/dt/D) during early diast...

A Beauceron was evaluated for a 3-week history of unresponsive immune-mediated polyarthritis and meningitis. Physical examination revealed previously unreported grade III/VI left apical systolic heart murmur. Based on the echocardiographic blood culture, diagnosis mitral valve infective endocarditis secondary to Listeria monocytogenes made. Despite extensive workup, no definitive primary focus ...

Congenital mitral valve stenosis is a rare pathology. In this study, we aimed to present our surgical approach and successful valve repair to a case with congenital mitral valve stenosis combined with left persistent superior vena cava. Conservative surgery of the congenital mitral valve stenosis can be performed with acceptable early and midterm outcome in terms of mortality and reoperation ra...