Background Atrial functional mitral regurgitation (AFMR) arises from left atrial (LA) dilation, commonly associated with atrial fibrillation, and leads to progressive cardiac damage. This study ...

Cardiac Doppler ultrasonography was used to search for structural and functional cardiac abnormalities and to assess the cardiac repercussions of AF, such as: left ventricular hypertrophy, left ...

Women often get diagnosed later, when they already show more severe symptoms. These include scarring, atrial dilation, and worse long-term outcomes. It’s not that women are less likely to ...

In the VASUS+ protocol, echocardiographic evaluation helps determine whether there is organ damage to the heart, specifically looking for hypertensive heart disease and left atrial dilation ...

and atrial functional TR (AFTR), resulting from atrial dilation and tricuspid annular enlargement. Among patients with moderate or severe TR, 41% had AFTR, while 59% had VFTR. VFTR was more common ...

and atrial functional TR (AFTR), resulting from atrial dilation and tricuspid annular enlargement. Among patients with moderate or severe TR, 41% had AFTR, while 59% had VFTR. VFTR was more common ...

Atrial fibrillation (AFib ... can affect the heart in other ways and lists other causes of an enlarged heart. Dilation: This occurs when the walls of the heart thin and stretch out, making ...

Marked atrial and annular dilatation (yellow arrows) result in malcoaptation of the leaflets, without severe RV dilatation or tricuspid leaflet tethering or tenting. Late in the course of disease ...

Aims Atrial functional mitral regurgitation (AFMR) is characterised by left atrial and consequent mitral annular dilatation causing mitral regurgitation. AFMR is likely to become more common with ...

This results in dilation of the mitral annulus and impaired annular contractility. Even in the absence of AF, however, HFpEF can result in atrial functional MR. “It’s like a vicious cycle in which we ...

Introduction: Sleep apnea and left atrial dilatation are both risk factors for an arrhythmia recurrence after catheter ablation (CA) of atrial fibrillation (AF). Negative intrathoracic pressure ...