There has been scant academic consideration paid to investigations of mitral leaflet flail in terms of clinical profile, surgical strategy, and surgical outcome. The most common reasons leading to ...

Infective Endocarditis (IE) refers to an infection of the endocardial surface of the heart which leads to a wide array of complications, including heart failure, perivalvular abscess, metastatic ...

Females are a minority of patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation (DMR) due to flail leaflet in tertiary centers and are referred at an older age, with more symptoms, and more often with HF ...

1 Jesselson Integrated Heart Center, Shaare Zedek Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 2 The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Safed, Israel ...

Figure 2. A, Right coronary artery angiogram demonstrating midvessel occlusion (arrow). B, Left ventriculogram, right anterior oblique view, demonstrating severe mitral regurgitation. LA indicates ...

In a study that included patients with mitral valve regurgitation due to a condition known as flail mitral valve leaflets, performance of early surgical correction compared with initial medical ...

From the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Acute mitral regurgitation caused by papillary muscle rupture is a rare but life-threatening ...

Left atrium (LA) enlargement is common in organic mitral regurgitation (MR) and is an emerging prognostic indicator. However, outcome implications of LA enlargement have not been analyzed in the ...

ABSTRACT: Infective endocarditis (IE) is the infection of inner endothelial layer of the heart including the heart valves and it may present as rapidly progressive or manifest itself as subacute or ...

ABSTRACT: Infective endocarditis (IE) is the infection of inner endothelial layer of the heart including the heart valves and it may present as rapidly progressive or manifest itself as subacute or ...