Effect of Pravastatin as an Adjunctive Therapeutic for Mitral Insufficiency with Hyperlipidemia in a Dog [PDF]
Case Reports in Veterinary Medicine, 2021 Pravastatin (PS) has been found to increase left ventricle (LV) expansion capacity and decrease LV constriction and left atrial pressure in healthy dogs.
Yu Sahashi +2 more
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Mitral Valve Fenestration as a Rare Cause of Congenital Mitral Insufficiency Successfully Repaired [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 2021 A rare case of congenital mitral insufficiency characterized by a fenestration in the anterior leaflet of mitral valve is reported. At operation, the mitral valve was successfully repaired by closure of unusual valvular tissue orifice with bovine ...
Francisco Fernandes Moreira Neto +4 more
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Elevated antistreptolysin O titer is closely related to cardiac mitral insufficiency in untreated patients with Takayasu arteritis [PDF]
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2020 Background The etiology of Takayasu arteritis (TA) is unknown; however, a possible relationship between streptococcal infection and TA has been proposed.
Lili Pan +7 more
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Surgical treatment of mitral valve insufficiency by valve repair [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 2002 OBJECTIVE: To analyze the short term results of mitral valve repair in a consecutive series of mitral insufficiency patients from different ethiologies. METHODS: A retrospective study was made of 86 patients with mitral insufficiency operated on between ...
Henrique Murad +7 more
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Reconstructive surgery of idiopathic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, systolic anterior motion and severe mitral regurgitation [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2004 Hypertrophie obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is an idiopathic disease frequently associated with systolic anterior motion (SAM). The anterior leaflet of mitral valve is sucked by Ventury effect into the left ventricle outflow tract making subaortic ...
Stojanović Ivan +5 more
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Congenital Mitral Insufficiency [PDF]
Circulation, 1961 The clinical and hemodynamic findings in 10 patients with mitral insufficiency on a congenital basis are described. Six of these patients have had repair of the defects with dramatic clinical improvement noted. The findings at the time of surgical repair have been summarized.
N S, TALNER, A M, STERN, H E, SLOAN
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Echocardiographic predictors of ischemic mitral insufficiency recurrence after mitral annuloplasty [PDF]
Кардіохірургія та інтервенційна кардіологія, 2018 The aim – to establish echocardiographic predictors of ischemic mitral insufficiency recurrence after surgical reduction annuloplasty of mitral valve (MV). Materials and methods.
N.D. Oryshchyn, Yu.A. Ivaniv
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The Condition of the Coronary Arteries in Patients with Ischemic Mitral Insufficiency
Український журнал серцево-судинної хірургії, 2020 Secondary (or functional) mitral regurgitation is the result of myocardial dysfunction due to ischemic injury with relatively normal cusps. In patients with ischemic mitral insufficiency, only surgical coronary artery bypass grafting can affect the ...
S. A. Rudenko +5 more
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Український журнал серцево-судинної хірургії, 2020 Ischemic mitral regurgitation is one of the most difficult and complex problems of surgical treatment of coronary heart disease and drug therapy of this group of patients.
S. A. Rudenko
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