prosthetic mitral valve

BACKGROUND Cardiac surgery during pregnancy is reserved for cases of failure of medical treatment due to its detrimental maternal… Expand

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess late morbidity after repair of aortic coarctation and its association with… Expand

A 64-year-old woman with a mechanical mitral valve prosthesis developed late-onset Candida endocarditis. Blood cultures grew… Expand

Reliable screening of mechanical prosthetic mitral valve (PMV) dysfunction by transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is mandatory… Expand

Left atrial (LA) spontaneous echo contrast (SEC), or "smoke," is a frequent finding on transesophageal echocardiography (TEE… Expand

AIMS To study left atrial dissection, a rare complication of mitral valve replacement. METHODS AND RESULTS From our hospital… Expand

BACKGROUND Diagnosis of a mechanical mitral valve prosthesis thrombosis is currently made with transthoracic Doppler… Expand

Left ventricular dp/dt is a useful isovolumic index for evaluating acute directional changes in myocardial contractility. To test… Expand

Resolution is the ability of the echocardiographic system to distinguish closely lying structures. This is usually defined in two… Expand

Clinical and morphologic features are described in 22 necropsy patients with endocarditis involving rigid-framed prosthetic… Expand