Determination of Regurgitant Orifice Area with the Use of a New Three-Dimensional Flow Convergence Geometric Assumption in Functional Mitral Regurgitation

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1251-1256

  Matsumura, Yoshiki ^a   Saracino, Giuseppe ^a   Sugioka, Kenichi ^b   Tran, Hung ^a   Greenberg, Neil L ^a   Wada, Nozomi ^a   Toyono, Manatomo ^a   Fukuda, Shota ^b   Hozumi, Takeshi ^b   Thomas, James D ^a   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^c   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^b   Shiota, Takahiro ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Osaka Ekisaikai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Echocardiography; Mitral valve; Regurgitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 55049125882     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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