...Jamilah AlRahimi; Zainab Almuwallad; Haneen Alsharm; Reenad F. Abed; Fatima A. Ahmed; Yasser M. Ismail Introduction: Assessing the severity of mitral stenosis (MS) is crucial for predictive and therapeutic purposes. While methods like planimetry and pressure half-time (PHT) are considered the gold...

...In-Jeong Cho; Soo-Jin Kim; Donghee Han; Darae Kim; Chi Young Shim; Geu-Ru Hong; Hyuk-Jae Chang Background: We aimed to investigate the characteristics and echocardiographic changes in patients with severe mitral stenosis (MS) who maintained sinus rhythm (SR) for at least 10 years after successful...

...Özgür Günebakmaz; Ahmet Celik; M. Tugrul Inanc; Mustafa Duran; Ekrem Karakaya; Murat Tulmac; Mahmut Akpek; Bahadir Sarli; Ali Ergin; Ramazan Topsakal We aimed to investigate copeptin levels in mitral stenosis (MS) patients and the behavior of copeptin after hemodynamic improvement achieved...

... in patients with mild to moderate mitral stenosis (MS). Methods: Eighty consecutive patients with rheumatic MS, who were admitted to the outpatient department, were enrolled into the study upon obtaining informed consent. Forty age-sex-matched healthy individuals were enrolled as a control group. Results: All...

...Emine Bilen; Mustafa Kurt; Ibrahim Halil Tanboga; Ahmet Kaya; Turgay Isik; Mehmet Ekinci; Mehmet Mustafa Can; Mehmet Fatih Karakas; Vecih Oduncu; Ednan Bayram; Enbiya Aksakal; Serdar Sevimli Background: It has been shown that mitral stenosis (MS) impairs left ventricular (LV) systolic function...

...Tomotsugu Tabata; Takashi Oki; Nobuo Fukuda; Arata Iuchi; Tomohiko Kawano; Kazuyo Manabe; Masato Tanimoto; Yoshimi Kageji; Miwa Sasaki; Minori Hama; Susumu Ito For evaluation of pulmonary venous flow (PVF) in mitral stenosis, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography were performed in 33...

... to cachexia or infection complicating heart failure, we measured prospectively plasma concentrations of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin-lβ (IL-lβ), interleukin2 (IL-2), and interleukin-6 (IL-6) in 12 patients with mitral stenosis with moderate congestive heart failure, but not with cachexia...

...Athanasios Trikas; Petros Papadopoulos; Filippos Triposkiadis; Christos Pitsavos; Kostas Tentolouris; Michael Kyriakidis; Pavlos Toutouzas Factors affecting the exercise capacity of patients with mitral stenosis (MS) and aortic regurgitation (AR) are incompletely understood. Accordingly, exercise...

...Tzong-Luen Wang; Yung-Zu Tseng Mitral stenosis associated with membranous obstruction of the inferior vena cava is a rare condition which has not been previously reported. We report a 60-year-old man who presented with pulmonary hypertension and obstruction of hepatic venous outflow due...

...Wing-Hing Chow; Tsun-Cheung Chow; Ming-Sun Wat; King-Loong Cheung Percutaneous balloon mitral valvotomy (PBMV) using the Inoue balloon catheter was performed successfully in 2 patients with severe mitral stenosis refractory to medical treatment during pregnancy. Because of its unique design...

...Uros U. Babic; Zoran Popovic; Sreten Grujicic; Petar Pejcic; Zoran Djurisic; Mihajlo Vucinic We measured pulmonary and systemic flows in 22 patients with mitral stenosis and in 7 controls. In patients with mitral stenosis, pulmonary flow index averaged 2.33 ± 0.41 l/min/m 2 and systemic flow index...

...Jan Voda; Seymour Glagov; Harold Brooks Echocardiographic visualization of diastolic anterior motion of the posterior leaflet has proven to be diagnostic of mitral stenosis. In order to elucidate the mechanisms which underlie this finding and to explain why it is absent in some proven instances...

...D.A. Sideris; S.F. Stamatelopoulos The pulmonary wedge pressure, pulmonary artery and right atrium pressure of 197 patients with dominant mitral stenosis were correlated with the age of the patients and the rhythm of the heart. A positive relation was found between atrial fibrillation and age...

...J. Kasalický; J. Fabián; J. Ressl; P. Jebavý; V. Stanĕk The left ventricular end-diastolic volume (EDV), end-systolic volume (ESV) and systolic ejection fraction (SV/EDV) were determined in 6 healthy subjects, 21 patients with ischemic heart disease and 8 patients with mitral stenosis by the left...

... correlation was found between planimetry and the Gorlin formula (r = 0.44, p = 0.01 before PBMV, r = 0.37, p = 0.03 after PBMV). The concordance between planimetry, PHT, and the Gorlin formula in classifying patients into mild, moderate, or severe mitral stenosis was not worse after PBMV. Planimetry-derived...

...Arslan Ocal; Nesligul Yildirim; Cemal Ozbakir; Ersin Saricam; Ozgur Ulas Ozdogan; Serpil Arslan; Omac Tufekcioglu; Irfan Sabah Background: Mitral stenosis has a generally slow but often variable clinical course. However, the factors that influence the rate of stenosis progression have not been...

...Mien-Cheng Chen; Hsueh-Wen Chang; Chiung-Jen Wu; Cheng-Hsu Yang; Teng-Hung Yu; Chien-Jen Chen; Wei-Chin Hung The study population consisted of 16 patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis undergoing percutaneous transluminal mitral valvuloplasty (group 1). The plasma levels of tumor necrosis factor-α...

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...Yi-Lwun Ho; Chau-Chung Wu; Lung-Chun Lin; Ming-Fong Chen; Yuan-Teh Lee; Por-Jau Huang This study was designed to quantify the blood stagnation in left atrial appendages (LAA) of patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis, and to stratify the risk of spontaneous echo contrast (SEC) for thrombus...

... anticoagulant therapy, and BMC can be performed subsequently. In the present study, we used transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to evaluate the effects of anticoagulant on LA thrombi in patients with mitral stenosis, to compare the clinical differences between patients with (group A) and without (group B...