Forty-three patients with suspected restenosis of the mitral valve are reported. Forty of these occurred in a series of 672 mitral commissurotomies. A significant degree of recurrent stenosis was ...

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Blood enters the left ventricle through the mitral valve and leaves through the aortic valve. A stenotic valve is a valve opening that has gotten smaller and is partially obstructing blood flow. In ...

These valve lesions include severe aortic stenosis, as well as severe symptomatic mitral stenosis, especially when pulmonary hypertension is present. In contrast to regurgitant lesions ...

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(Tricuspid or pulmonary valve disease, by itself, is an infrequent cause of right-sided heart failure.) Stenosis of the mitral valve (the valve that lies between the left atrium and left ventricle), a ...

Thus, it is not surprising that patients originally suspected of having mitral regurgitation are later revealed as having aortic stenosis instead. When a predominantly apical systolic murmur ...

After acquiring its developer last year, Edwards Lifesciences has now obtained a European approval for what it described as the world’s first transfemoral transcatheter mitral valve replacement ...

Mitral regurgitation was the predominant lesion (61.0%), followed by mixed mitral valve disease (24.4%) and mitral stenosis (14.6%). The most frequent associated valve diseases were tricuspid ...