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Left Atrial Myxoma Mimicking Mitral Stenosis
, 2012 Cardiac myxoma is a benign (non-malignant) neoplasm that represents the most common primary tumour of the heart. We present the case of a 36 year old woman with background hypertension who presented with features of left ventricular failure and seizures,
Dike B Ojji +5 more
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Persistence Pulmonal Hypertension After Balloon Mitral Valvuiloplasty
Majalah Kardiologi Indonesia, 2013 Background.Pulmonary hypertension frequently complicates mitral stenosis. Increased pulmonary artery pressure results from raised left atrial pressure, pulmonary arteriolar vasoconstriction, and obliterative changes in the pulmonary vascular bed, and ...
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ESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 1316-1325, April 2025.Abstract Objective This study aimed to evaluate the utility of left atrial volume and function in uraemic patients using four‐dimensional automatic left atrial quantification (4D auto LAQ) technology. Methods Thirty‐four undialysed uraemic patients (U‐ND group), 60 dialysed uraemic patients (U‐D group), and 32 healthy volunteers (N group) were enrolled
Bing Li, Meihua Chen, Xuning Huang
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Mitral stenosis and atrial fibrillation
, 2014 Mitral stenosis was noted and described both as clinical picture and pathological finding for the first time by John Mayow in 1669. It took more than a century, when in 1827 Robert Adams recognized that `extremely irregular action of the heart is almost ...
Negreva, M.
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Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Dialysis Patients [PDF]
, 2012 Background/Aims: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has emerged as a new therapeutic option for high-risk patients. However, dialysis patients were excluded from all previous studies.
Wessely, Matthias +6 more
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Mitral stenosis with term pregnancy: how to manage this case?
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2013 From heart disease complicating pregnancy, rheumatic mitral stenosis occupies a larger part. Physiological changes during pregnancy and the impact of pathological mitral stenosis on pregnancy and labor are important to know.
Zine el abidine Benali +3 more
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The American Journal of Medicine, 1991 We observed a series of patients in whom the diagnosis of mitral stenosis was first discovered in the echocardiography laboratory. Because of this experience, we examined the records of 152 patients with echocardiographic evidence of rheumatic mitral stenosis to determine the clinical characteristics and course of patients with unsuspected mitral ...
M, Sherrid +6 more
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ESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 1374-1385, April 2025.Abstract Aims Inflammation plays a critical role in both the development and progression of heart failure (HF), which is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. However, the causality between specific inflammation‐related proteins and HF risk remains unclear.
Xian‐Guan Zhu +9 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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Clinical and echocardiographic differences between rheumatic and degenerative mitral stenosis
Introduction: Degenerative mitral stenosis (DMS) is frequently cited as increasing in prevalence in the developed world, although comparatively little is known about DMS in comparison to rheumatic mitral stenosis (RMS).
Tony Yi-Wei Li +9 more
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