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Mitral regurgitation occurs when the mitral valve allows blood to flow back into a person’s left atrium. Without treatment, it may cause complications such as stroke or atrial fibrillation.

Mitral regurgitation (MR) is also called mitral insufficiency, and is a condition in which the valve allows blood to leak back into the left atrium when the ventricle contracts, instead of holding ...

In contrast to patients with chronic rheumatic mitral regurgitation, those with mitral regurgitation secondary to ruptured chordae tendineae seldom live longer than a year, 3 although there have ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Aortic valve regurgitation treated with the investigational JenaValve Trilogy appeared safe and effective in the ALIGN AR trial. The device met the safety benchmark, with a 26.7% ...

A cutoff of less than 0.63 resulted in 100% sensitivity and a cutoff of less than 0.5 had a specificity of 95.5% when detecting hemodynamically significant aortic regurgitation.

Otsuji, Y, Handschumacher, MD, Liel-Cohen, N, et al. Mechanism of ischemic mitral regurgitation with segmental left ventricular dysfunction: three-dimensional echocardiographic studies in models ...

Mitral regurgitation (MR) is a condition where the mitral valve in the heart does not close properly, allowing blood to flow backward into the left atrium when the left ventricle contracts.

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