Objectives Cleft-like indentations (CLI) are deep separations between scallops of the mitral posterior leaflet observed in myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD), but their diagnosis, mechanisms and ...

Wells is averaging 10.4 points, 3.4 rebounds, and 1.7 assists per game this season, starting 74 of 79 games as a rookie. The Grizzlies have heavily leaned on Wells' defensive versatility, ...

Introduction: Yeo’s index, the product of the mitral leaflet separation index and dimensionless index of mitral valve, was recently described to accurately identify severe rheumatic mitral stenosis ...

Phonocardiographic Index of 12 Patients with Mitral Stenosis before and after Surgery. In 2 patients out of 37 with mitral stenosis, an opening snap could not be identified in the phonocardiogram.

It was then possible to introduce the index finger into the mitral-valve ... Dressler and his associates 16 as a sign of tight mitral stenosis. Wells 17 showed the "corrected Q-1 minus 2-O.S ...

David S. Bach, MD, FACC. Methods: Data in the French Programme de Médicalisation des Systèmes d’Information (PMSI; a large, nationwide, administrative, hospital-discharge French database) were used to ...

Introduction. Mitral valve stenosis (MVS) continues to be a prominent cause of heart disease in countries with rapidly growing economies, 1 accounting for up to 40% of the valvulopathies in the less ...

Background Haemodynamic exercise testing is important for evaluating patients with dyspnoea on exertion and preserved ejection fraction. Despite very different pathologies, patients with pressure ...