ALLMedicine™ Mitral Valve Prolapse Center

Feb 24th, 2021 - Mitral valve prolapse and sport: how much prolapse is too prolapsing?|2021|Castelletti S,|

Feb 21st, 2021 - Under the term degenerative mitral valve prolapse different pathophysiological and clinical entities coexist in a spectrum ranging from Barlow's disease to fibroelastic deficiency, and represent the most common cause of mitral regurgitation in the...

Feb 20th, 2021 - Unilateral cardiogenic pulmonary edema is a rare disease. A common cause is mitral valve and asymmetrical blood regurgitation that is primarily directed toward the upper right pulmonary vein, causing mean capillary pressure to increase on the righ...

Feb 10th, 2021 - Although both are initially asymptomatic, mitral valve prolapse/myxomatous mitral valve disease (MVP/MMVD) and bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), with its associated aortic disease, are currently the two most common congenital valvular heart diseases. S...

Feb 5th, 2021 - Mitral valve prolapse is a common finding in Graves' disease. However, severe mitral regurgitation (MR) is a relatively uncommon manifestation of Graves' disease. We report a case of a 32-year-old woman with toxic Graves' disease and MR. The echoc...

Feb 24th, 2021 - Mitral valve prolapse and sport: how much prolapse is too prolapsing?|2021|Castelletti S,|

Feb 21st, 2021 - Under the term degenerative mitral valve prolapse different pathophysiological and clinical entities coexist in a spectrum ranging from Barlow's disease to fibroelastic deficiency, and represent the most common cause of mitral regurgitation in the...

Feb 20th, 2021 - Unilateral cardiogenic pulmonary edema is a rare disease. A common cause is mitral valve and asymmetrical blood regurgitation that is primarily directed toward the upper right pulmonary vein, causing mean capillary pressure to increase on the righ...

Feb 10th, 2021 - Although both are initially asymptomatic, mitral valve prolapse/myxomatous mitral valve disease (MVP/MMVD) and bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), with its associated aortic disease, are currently the two most common congenital valvular heart diseases. S...

Feb 5th, 2021 - Mitral valve prolapse is a common finding in Graves' disease. However, severe mitral regurgitation (MR) is a relatively uncommon manifestation of Graves' disease. We report a case of a 32-year-old woman with toxic Graves' disease and MR. The echoc...

May 2nd, 2017 - Action Points Mitral valve prolapse is more likely to be repaired successfully if surgeons perform the procedure at least 25 times a year, based on data from a New York State mandatory-reporting cardiac surgery database. Note that these data repre...

Feb 1st, 2017 - Atrial flutter may be a sequela of open heart surgery. After cardiac surgery, atrial flutter may be reentrant as a result of natural barriers, atrial incisions, and scar. Some patients develop atypical left atrial flutter after pulmonary vein isol...

Dec 1st, 2016 - Time to End Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Infective Endocarditis? Introduction During my emergency medicine training in the early 1990s, antibiotic prophylaxis for infective endocarditis (IE) was routine for many types of patients before undergoing a...

Oct 15th, 2014 - Finally, the new guidelines include recommendations for using transcatheter valves and the mitral clip to treat patients with secondary MR with LV dysfunction. This is not yet an approved indication from the Food and Drug Administration, pending t.

Jan 17th, 2012 - Other Cardiac Sounds Means-Lerman Scratch A Means-Lerman scratch is a mid-systolic sound over the upper sternum. It occurs in end expiration and is associated with hyperthyroidism. It is caused by a pulmonary ejection murmur in the setting of a hy...