Background Although the prognostic implications of severe mitral regurgitation (MR) are well recognised, they are less clear ...

Mitral regurgitation (MR) is the term used for (abnormal) systolic retrograde flow of blood from the left ventricle to the left atrium (LA). MR occurs either due to disease involving the mitral ...

Functional mitral valve regurgitation occurs when the left atrium or left ventricle dilates, causing the mitral valve annulus to also dilate and prevent the mitral valve leaflets from properly ...

Background Mitral valve repair (MVr) is the gold standard treatment for degenerative mitral regurgitation, yet there is ...

A 78-year-old patient with severe mitral regurgitation has successfully undergone the MitraClip procedure, marking a ...

Case 1. A 17-year-old boy was admitted to Walter Reed General Hospital for repair of an ostium-primum defect of the interatrial septum with an associated cleft mitral valve and mitral insufficiency.

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