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

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 ...

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.