Mitral regurgitation is the most common form of valvular heart disease and affects around 10% of Americans over 75. It occurs when the mitral ...

The normal mitral valve permits unrestricted antegrade diastolic ... The left volume-loaded left ventricle can initially maintain forward flow maintained by the Frank-Starling principle.

Valve diseases are mostly dynamic ... patients with moderately enlarged LV. Stress Doppler echocardiography may be used in patients with mitral stenosis. Measuring the mean transvalvular mitral ...