To determine the echocardiographic and Doppler characteristics of mitral regurgitation associated with a flail mitral valve, precordial and transesophageal echocardiography with pulsed wave and Doppler color flow mapping was performed in 17 patients with a flail mitral valve leaflet due to ruptured chordae tendineae (Group I) and 22 patients with moderate or severe mitral regurgitation due to o...

valvuloplasty can be performed safely and with satisfactory results in over 85% of these patients. It is also possible that repeat PMV can be performed in these patients with acceptable risks and results. In our own single centre experience in about 390 procedures repeat percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty was performed in 17 cases (mean age 65 13 years) without any increase in the rate of acute...

Mitral Valve; Balloon Dilatation / history. In 1982, Kanjii Inoue, a Japanese cardiac surgeon, developed the concept that a thickened and deteriorated mitral valve could be widened as a synthetic balloon. This concept was similar to the one used in the surgical closed mitral commissurotomy1. Subsequently, the double-balloon technique was introduced in Saudi Arabia as an alternative method to th...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy and safety of percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC), using multi-track double balloon technique in juvenile mitral stenosis. DESIGN Open non-randomised intervention. SETTING Cardiac catheterisation laboratories of The Mater Hospital, The Nairobi Hospital and Kenyatta National Hospital from 1996 to 2001. PATIENTS Forty five consecutive pa...

A heavily calcified left atrial myxoma in a man aged 53 was diagnosed from the plain chest x-ray film and confirmed by echocardiography. There was also moderate mitral regurgitation caused by a floppy mitral valve. Before a systemic embolus is considered to have arisen from a floppy mitral valve, echocardiography must be performed.

of cardiac structures. Image resolution remains a concern for transthoracic 3D imaging, but the recent development of 3D transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) (either real-time or reconstructed) has made this less of an issue. Development of 3D echocardiography has made vast contributions to the understanding of mitral valve function. Although in the majority of patients with mitral stenosis, ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to examine 1-year outcomes of transseptal balloon-expandable transcatheter heart valve implantation in failed mitral bioprosthesis, ring annuloplasty, and mitral annular calcification (MAC). BACKGROUND Immediate outcomes following transseptal mitral valve implantation in failed bioprostheses are favorable, but data on subsequent outcomes are lacking. MET...

INTRODUCTION The anterior mitral leaflet cleft is an unusual congenital lesion most often encountered in association with other congenital heart defects. The isolated anterior leaflet cleft is quite a rare anomaly and is usually cause of mitral valve regurgitation. The importance of the lesion is that it is often correctable. When feasible, cleft suture and, eventually, annuloplasty are prefera...

The Carpentier-Edwards pericardial bioprosthesis has been markedly improved in the long-term results and valve-related complications including valve dysfunction, compared to the previous generation bioprosthesis. We report a patient in whom transient prosthetic valve regurgitation and hemolysis occurred early after mitral valve replacement using a Carpentier-Edwards pericardial bioprosthesis an...

BACKGROUND To investigate the association between the coaptation height of mitral valve and mitral regurgitation after mitral valve repair. METHODS From Sep 2014 to Jun 2015, 20 patients underwent mitral valve valvuloplasty for mitral regurgitation were included. Ring annuloplasty was performed in all cases. Mitral valve short-axis dimension (MVd), coaptation height (CH), Left ventricular eje...