His ejection fraction was critically low at just 10%, making him prone to severe mitral regurgitation, where blood leaks backward due to improper valve closure. Six months ago, he underwent a CRT ...

We systematically searched Medline and PubMed for original research articles published since 2000 that provided data on the quantitation of aortic regurgitation by CMR and identified 11 articles for ...

Describes the nature of a clinical study. Types include: Observational study — observes people and measures outcomes without affecting results. Interventional study (clinical trial) — studies new ...

Background Although the prognostic implications of severe mitral regurgitation (MR) are well recognised ... In severe symptomatic primary MR, valve intervention is considered.8 However, there is less ...

FIGURE 1. Quantification parameters of the mitral annulus. The full blue curve represents the 3D saddle-shaped annulus, whereas the grey dashed curve represents the projection of the mitral annulus ...

Background: Functional Mitral Regurgitation (FMR) associated with coronary artery disease affects nearly ... where the EDF phase was defined as the time step immediately prior to opening of the mitral ...