Posterior mitral valve leaflet aneurysms are extremely rare complications of infective endocarditis of the aortic valve. Destruction of the aortic valve results in a regurgitant jet that strikes the ...

Multimodality imaging has provided important insights in the pathophysiology of mitral regurgitation, aortic stenosis, and aortic regurgitation Grading the severity of valve dysfunction is an ...

A cardiothoracic surgeon at Mount Sinai, Dr. Anelechi Anyanwu specializes in performing surgeries for complex heart valve problems and heart failure. This is the fourth column in a series recognizing ...

Mrs MG is a 61-year-old patient who presented an inferior acute ST elevation myocardial infarction in July 2009. She received a bare metal stent in the proximal right coronary artery. No significant ...

Clinicians should use echocardiography, an ultrasound that shows the heart's structure and function, when determining whether patients with heart failure and a leaking heart valve are likely to ...

Background A 67-year-old man was admitted to a coronary care unit for non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction with complicating acute heart failure. Severe mitral regurgitation was detected by ...

One hundred and twenty patients with mitral stenosis were studied by combined catheterization. Thirty-five of these patients with pure mitral stenosis are the subject of this study. The diagnosis was ...

Following a Carpentier Edwards mitral valve replacement (MVR), left ventricular outflow tract obstruction is observed that leads to a gradient of more than 50mm Hg. This rare complication occurs in ...

In the largest randomized trial conducted to compare minimally invasive and conventional cardiac surgical techniques for repairing a poorly functioning mitral valve, improvements in physical activity, ...

Mitral regurgitation (MR) is a serious heart condition that often requires corrective surgery. It is characterized by the backflow or "regurgitation" of blood from the heart's left ventricle into the ...