Another classic finding of mitral regurgitation is a holosystolic murmur, best heard at the apex of the stethoscope's diaphragm. With a holosystolic murmur, the extra heart sound starts after S1 ...

Maple’s owners noticed a problem. Their 9-year-old Chihuahua started to have a dry, hacking cough three to four times a day, ...

The prevalence and impact of right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) in degenerative mitral regurgitation (DMR) is unknown. We aimed to determine whether RVD assessed by echocardiography in routine ...

Methods Patients with mitral regurgitation (MR) 3+ or 4+ and predicted surgical mortality risk ≥12% or surgeon assessment based on prespecified high-risk factors were enrolled. Patients prospectively ...

Background Although the prognostic implications of severe mitral regurgitation (MR) are well recognised, they are less clear in moderate MR. We therefore explored the prognostic impact of both ...

RVD was associated with a 1.6‐fold increased mortality under medical management. Of the 73% of patients who underwent mitral valve surgery, 1‐month postoperative mortality was 2.6% compared with 11.4% ...

In each the typical physical findings of mitral stenosis were present; these included a sharp mitral first sound, a rumbling ... and a + (minor) aortic regurgitation was noted in each case.

The first heart sound, S1, occurs when the mitral and tricuspid valves close. These valves close as the ventricles pump blood out of the heart into the lungs or body—this is called systole.

LONDON, England—Two-year results from the CLASP IID randomized trial and registry confirm the early benefits of transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) with the Pascal system (Edwards Lifesciences) ...

The diagnosis was “non-rheumatic mitral regurgitation.” Dr. Wulff said he wanted to monitor the situation and that “all of this is fixable when it needs to be fixed.” Heart surgery for ...

The best TVs for sound deliver great picture quality and dynamic, room-filling sound to go with it. Although it might seem like as the picture performance of TVs advances, sound tends to suffer ...