The mitral valve controls blood flow between the heart's left atrium and ventricle. When structural changes affect the atrium ...

Atrial functional mitral regurgitation (AFMR) often leads to heart failure in elderly patients, many of whom are too frail ...

Mitral repair not replacement likely. (Class IIa) Asymptomatic severe mitral regurgitation if the left ventricular ejection fraction is < 60% and/or the end systolic dimension is > 40 mm. (Class I).

Mitral valve regurgitation is sometimes called mitral insufficiency or mitral incompetence. Whatever term your doctor uses, it&#039;s describing a mitral valve that leaks, allowing blood to flow ...

In some patients, the mitral valve itself can be damaged (degenerative mitral regurgitation). In other patients, annular dilatation or abnormal tension on the chordae supporting the valve leaflets ...

Patients with severe mitral regurgitation, a condition in which the heart's mitral valve does not close and seal properly, have a new, minimally invasive treatment option. The MitraClip system is ...

Transcatheter mitral valve repair for heart failure patients with mitral regurgitation can reduce the long-term rate of hospitalizations by almost 50 percent, and death by nearly 30 percent ...

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 ...

All patients with significant regurgitation were found to have systolic deformity of the mitral valve, whereas those without regurgitation showed either no deformity (Fig. 2) or (in 1 case) only ...

Transapical mitral valve replacement by catheter eliminated mitral regurgitation and improved hemodynamics in a frail high-risk population, results of the SUMMIT trial show.

In patients who had mitral valve surgery but also tricuspid regurgitation or tricuspid annular dilation, performing concomitant tricuspid valve repair lowered risk for progression of tricuspid ...

In the case of MVP, blood flowing back into left atrium — a condition known as mitral valve regurgitation — can cause a murmur. The sound of an MVP murmur is a swishing or whooshing noise.