Mitral ValveHeart Valve DiseasesCalcinosisAgedFemaleA 74 year old woman was found to have a calcified mass on a plain chest radiograph. Follow up studies identified a large, densely calcified mitral periannular mass, consistent with mitral annular calcification (MAC). Three months later, she ...
The techniques of mitral valve repair are based on certain fundamental principles developed by Carpentier and others over the past 35 years. They start with the notion that, in theory, any regurgitant valve with adequate, pliable, noncalcified leaflet tissue can be repaired as long as a system...
(Middle)Patient receiving long-term dialysis withdegenerated and calcified mitral leaflets but only mildly impaired left ventricular function. Color Doppler showed a large regurgitant jet into the dilated left atrium and reversed flow in the pulmonary vein. The PVI analysis provided a relatively ...
Mitral valve area was 1.0 cm2 and peak/mean transmitral gradient was 32 mmHg/25 mmHg at the heart rate of 78 bpm in sinus rhythm with Wilkin's score of 8–9`.TTE showed that the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and posterior mitral leaflet (PML) both were calcified with mildly ...