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Mitral Prosthetic Inflow Mimicking Severe Aortic Regurgitation
Author(s) -
Baweja Gurpreet,
Nanda Navin C.,
Hans Anil K.,
Liguori Chiara,
Fadel Ahmad,
Dod Harvinder,
Ravi Barugur
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.02143.x
Subject(s) - regurgitation (circulation) , medicine , cardiology , mitral regurgitation , color doppler , doppler echocardiography , inflow , radiology , ultrasonography , blood pressure , diastole , geology , oceanography
We describe two patients in whom mitral valve prosthetic inflow mimicked severe aortic regurgitation. Repeat transthoracic echocardiography using multiple transducer angulations and a narrow color Doppler sector angle in one patient and a color Doppler M‐Mode study in the second patient proved useful in excluding the presence of severe aortic regurgitation. (ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, Volume 21, January 2004)