Mitral Valve

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Novel Approach to Assess the Three-Dimensional Anatomy of a Mitral Valve Regurgitant Jet Orifice. 
  • A clinical comparison of mitral valve repair versus valve replacement in ischemic mitral regurgitation. 
  • A five-year-old girl with acute renal failure and multiple cerebral infractions. 
  • A reassessment of the echocardiogram in mitral stenosis. 
  • ASE/SCA guidelines for performing a comprehensive intraoperative multiplane transesophageal echocardiography examination: recommendations of the American Society of Echocardiography Council for Intraoperative Echocardiography and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Task Force for Certification in Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography. 
  • Accelerated TPA for treatment of prosthetic valve thrombosis. 
  • Acquired dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction complicating acute anterior myocardial infarction: serial echocardiographic and clinical evaluation. 
  • Acute and 12-month results with catheter-based mitral valve leaflet repair: the EVEREST II (Endovascular Valve Edge-to-Edge Repair) High Risk Study. 
  • Acute myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest due to coronary artery perforation after mitral valve surgery: successful treatment with a covered stent. 
  • Adding mitral valve annuloplasty to surgical revascularization does not benefit patients with functional ischemic mitral regurgitation. 
  • Adjuvant Pericardial Sac Restraining in Heart Failure Treatment. A Medical Hypothesis Illustrated by a Case Report. 
  • Advances in the surgical treatment of heart failure. 
  • An elderly woman with shortness of breath. 
  • An interesting finding during transesophageal echocardiographic assessment of the mitral valve. 
  • Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery in tetralogy of Fallot associated with abnormal mitral valve pathology. 
  • Apex cardiogram in patients with prolapsing mitral valve. 
  • Association Between Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion and Readmission for Thromboembolism Among Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Concomitant Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Association of Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair With Quality of Life Outcomes at 30 Days and 1 Year: Analysis of the Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • Associations between valve repair and reduced operative mortality in 21,056 mitral/tricuspid double valve procedures. 
  • Asymmetric versus symmetric tethering patterns in ischemic mitral regurgitation: geometric differences from three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography. 
  • Atrial fibrillation correction surgery: lessons from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Cardiac Database. 
  • Balloon valvuloplasty and operative treatment of mitral stenosis. 
  • Basic diagnostic echocardiography. 
  • Beating-heart mitral valve surgery: preliminary model and methodology. 
  • Biatrial maze procedure versus pulmonary vein isolation for atrial fibrillation during mitral valve surgery: New analytical approaches and end points. 
  • Binding of IgG-sensitized erythrocytes by mitral and aortic cardiac valves: a possible clue to the pathogenesis of immune valvular heart disease. 
  • Calcific valvular aortic stenosis with and without mitral anular calcium. 
  • Calcification of the ascending aorta and aortic and mitral valves in Gaucher's disease. 
  • Cardiac conduction defects in patients older than 60 years with aortic stenosis with and without mitral anular calcium. 
  • Cardiovascular Outcomes Assessment of the MitraClip in Patients with Heart Failure and Secondary Mitral Regurgitation: Design and rationale of the COAPT trial. 
  • Cardiovascular events and hospital resource utilization pre- and post-transcatheter mitral valve repair in high-surgical risk patients. 
  • Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome after cardiac surgery. 
  • Catheter-based closure of aortic and mitral paravalvular leaks: existing techniques and new frontiers. 
  • Changes in left ventricular systolic performance immediately after percutaneous aortic balloon valvuloplasty. 
  • Characteristics and outcomes of re-do percutaneous paravalvular leak closure. 
  • Clinical Outcomes of Mitral Valve Reoperations in the United States: An Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database. 
  • Clinical Trial Design Principles and Endpoint Definitions for Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair and Replacement: Part 1: Clinical Trial Design Principles: A Consensus Document From the Mitral Valve Academic Research Consortium. 
  • Clinical and echocardiographic characteristics of patients with mitral anular calcification. Comparison with age- and sex-matched control subjects. 
  • Clinical characteristics of patients younger than 60 years with mitral anular calcium: comparison with age- and sex-matched control subjects. 
  • Clinical comparison of St. Jude and porcine mitral valve prostheses. 
  • Clinical problem-solving. Taken out of context. 
  • Closed mitral valvotomy for mitral restenosis: experience in 113 consecutive cases. 
  • Coapting Cost and Clinical Outcomes in Transcatheter Intervention for Secondary Mitral Regurgitation. 
  • Combined TMR and mitral valve replacement via left thoracotomy. 
  • Commentary: Following the guidelines: Life in the real world. 
  • Commentary: We can do it, but do we need to? 
  • Comparison of Coapsys annuloplasty and internal reduction mitral annuloplasty in the randomized treatment of functional ischemic mitral regurgitation: impact on the left ventricle. 
  • Comparison of Transesophageal and Transthoracic Echocardiographic Measurements of Mechanism and Severity of Mitral Regurgitation in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy (from the Surgical Treatment of Ischemic Heart Failure Trial). 
  • Comparison of anticoagulation regimens after Carpentier-Edwards aortic or mitral valve replacement. 
  • Comparison of direct aortic and femoral cannulation for port-access cardiac operations. 
  • Comparison of need for operative therapy in patients with mitral valve prolapse involving both leaflets versus posterior leaflet only. 
  • Comparison of open mitral commissurotomy with mitral valve replacement with or without chordal preservation in patients with mitral stenosis. 
  • Comparison of port access to sternotomy in tricuspid or mitral/tricuspid operations. 
  • Complications related to percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy. 
  • Conduction defects and mitral annulus calcification. 
  • Congenital Double Orifice Mitral Valve Is A Repairable Condition. 
  • Congenital mitral insufficiency secondary to anomalous mitral arcade in an adult. 
  • Considerations in selection and management of patients undergoing valve replacement with glutaraldehyde-fixed porcine bioprotheses. 
  • Cost-Effectiveness of Mitral Valve Repair Versus Replacement for Severe Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation: A Randomized Clinical Trial From the Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network 
  • Cryopreserved mitral homograft in the tricuspid position for infective endocarditis: a valve that can be repaired in the long-term (13 years). 
  • Current management of mitral valve incompetence associated with coronary artery disease. 
  • Current prognosis of ischemic mitral regurgitation. Implications for future management. 
  • Cutting corners. 
  • Delayed presentation of a mitral annular perforation complicating Staphylococcus aureus infective endocarditis. 
  • Determinants of 15-year outcome with 1,119 standard Carpentier-Edwards porcine valves. 
  • Determinants of reoperation after 960 valve replacements with Carpentier-Edwards prostheses. 
  • Determination of the mitral papillary muscle positions by the septal-to-free wall arc ratio method. 
  • Diagnostic usefulness and prognostic implications of the mitral E/E' ratio in patients with heart failure and severe secondary mitral regurgitation. 
  • Differences in Two- and Three-Dimensional Assessment of the Mitral Valve by Novices and Experts, Illustrated Using Anterior Mitral Valve Leaflet Length. 
  • Differential diagnosis of pulmonary nodule. 
  • Direct aortic cannulation for port-access mitral or coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Does mitral valve repair offer an advantage over replacement in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement? 
  • Doppler left ventricular diastolic filling abnormalities in aortic stenosis and their relation to hemodynamic parameters. 
  • Dynamic Left Ventricular Outflow Obstruction and Systolic Anterior Motion of the Mitral Valve Complicating Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement. 
  • Dynamic indices of mitral valve function using perioperative three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography. 
  • Dynamic mitral regurgitation without regional wall motion abnormality. 
  • Dyssynchrony: a different kind of mitral regurgitation. 
  • Echo rounds: Intraoperative delineation of mitral annuloplasty dehiscence using three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography. 
  • Echocardiographic and electrocardiographic characteristics of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with and without mitral anular calcium. 
  • Echocardiography of the mitral valve. 
  • Effect of balloon size and stepwise inflation technique on the acute results of Inoue mitral commissurotomy. Inoue Balloon Catheter Investigators. 
  • Effect of dobutamine stress echocardiography on mitral regurgitation. 
  • Effect of valve deformity on results and mitral regurgitation after Inoue balloon commissurotomy. 
  • Effective closure of the mitral valve without atrial systole. 
  • Effects of positive-pressure ventilation, pericardial effusion, and cardiac tamponade on respiratory variation in transmitral flow velocities. 
  • Effects of right ventricular morphology and function on outcomes of patients with degenerative mitral valve disease. 
  • Effects of sample volume location, imaging view, heart rate and age on tricuspid velocimetry in normal subjects. 
  • Effects of standard mitral valve replacement on left ventricular function. 
  • Effects of valve replacement on ventricular mechanics in mitral regurgitation and aortic stenosis. 
  • En face view of the mitral valve: definition and acquisition. 
  • Endocarditis in the newborn. 
  • Endovascular aortic balloon clamp malposition during minimally invasive cardiac surgery: detection by transcranial Doppler monitoring. 
  • Evaluation of renal function before and after percutaneous mitral valve repair. 
  • Evaluation of suture techniques for mitral valve replacement. 
  • Excellent Early; Not-So-Excellent Late. 
  • Exclusion of mitral valvuloplasty from predictors of mortality for patients undergoing cardiac valve replacements in New York State. 
  • Experimental mitral regurgitation. Physiological effects of correction on left ventricular dynamics. 
  • First report of the Port Access International Registry. 
  • Five-year outcomes of transcatheter reduction of significant mitral regurgitation in high-surgical-risk patients. 
  • Fondaparinux therapy in a hemodialysis patient with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia type II. 
  • Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation in Mitral Valve Disease. 
  • Gender differences in mortality after mitral valve operation: evidence for higher mortality in perimenopausal women. 
  • Genetic associations with valvular calcification and aortic stenosis. 
  • Hemolytic anemia following insertion of Ionescu-Shiley mitral valve bioprosthesis. 
  • Identification of Severe Mitral Stenosis Using Real-Time Three-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography During an Left Ventricular Assist Device Insertion. 
  • Impact of aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis on dynamic mitral annular motion and geometry. 
  • Impact of complications on outcomes following aortic and mitral valve replacements in the United States. 
  • Improved functional status and quality of life in prohibitive surgical risk patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation after transcatheter mitral valve repair. 
  • In-hospital and 1-year mortality in patients undergoing early surgery for prosthetic valve endocarditis. 
  • Influence of age on outcomes in patients undergoing mitral valve replacement. 
  • Influence of mitral regurgitation repair on survival in the surgical treatment for ischemic heart failure trial. 
  • Influence of patient age on procedural selection in mitral valve surgery. 
  • Initial Experience With Commercial Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair in the United States. 
  • Intraoperative Evaluation of Mitral Stenosis by Transesophageal Echocardiography. 
  • Intraoperative Evaluation of Paravalvular Regurgitation by Transesophageal Echocardiography. 
  • Invited Commentary. 
  • Invited commentary. 
  • Ischemic mitral regurgitation. 
  • Isolated Double Orifice Mitral Valve - a Rare Finding in an Elderly Man. 
  • Isolation and characterization of an acquired antithrombin antibody. 
  • It's not just an open or shut case. 
  • J. Maxwell Chamberlain Memorial Paper for adult cardiac surgery. Less-invasive mitral valve operations: trends and outcomes from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. 
  • Late results after mitral valve replacement with the Björk-Shiley and porcine prostheses. 
  • Late survival after valve operation in patients with left ventricular dysfunction. 
  • Left atrial tachycardia originating from the mitral annulus-aorta junction. 
  • Letter: Left circumflex coronary artery in SCS. 
  • Long-Term Clinical Outcomes of Silzone Era St. Jude Medical Mechanical Heart Valves. 
  • Long-term follow-up of patients with echocardiographically detected mitral anular calcium and comparison with age- and sex-matched control subjects. 
  • Long-term outcomes of mitral regurgitation by type and severity. 
  • Longitudinal results after first-stage palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. 
  • Maintenance of valvular integrity with Impella left heart support: Results from the multicenter PROTECT II randomized study. 
  • Management and outcomes in patients with moderate or severe functional mitral regurgitation and severe left ventricular dysfunction. 
  • Massive calcification of the mitral annulus in a 17-year-old patient with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosis. 
  • Mechanisms of functional mitral regurgitation in ischemic cardiomyopathy determined by transesophageal echocardiography (from the Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure Trial). 
  • Methodologic issues in clinical evaluation of stenosis severity in adults undergoing aortic or mitral balloon valvuloplasty. The NHLBI Balloon Valvuloplasty Registry. 
  • Minimally Invasive Mitral Repair: Direct Aortic Cannulation Via Right 2nd Intercostal Space. 
  • Minimally invasive edge-to-edge mitral repair with or without artificial chordae. 
  • Minimally invasive right lateral thoracotomy without aortic cross-clamping: an attractive alternative to repeat sternotomy for reoperative mitral valve surgery. 
  • Minithoracotomy versus sternotomy for mitral surgery in patients with chronic renal impairment: a propensity-matched study. 
  • Minitransseptal versus left atrial approach to the mitral valve: a comparison of outcomes. 
  • Mitral Intervention with LVAD: Preparing for Recovery. 
  • Mitral annular abscess in Salmonella endocarditis: resolution with medical therapy. 
  • Mitral annular calcification and coarctation of aorta. 
  • Mitral cerclage annuloplasty, a novel transcatheter treatment for secondary mitral valve regurgitation: initial results in swine. 
  • Mitral flow propagation velocity identifies patients with abnormal diastolic function during coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Mitral procedure selection in patients on dialysis: does mitral repair influence outcomes? 
  • Mitral stenosis: mitral dome excursion at M1 and the mitral opening snap--the concept of reciprocal heart sounds. 
  • Mitral surgery after prior cardiac operation: port-access versus sternotomy or thoracotomy. 
  • Mitral valve operation via Port Access versus median sternotomy. 
  • Mitral valve repair and cardiac transplantation in a patient with factor XII deficiency. 
  • Mitral valve repair for degenerative disease: a 20-year experience. 
  • Mitral valve replacement for isolated mitral regurgitation: analysis of clinical course and late postoperative left ventricular ejection fraction. 
  • Mitral valve surgery and acute renal injury: port access versus median sternotomy. 
  • Mitral valvular interstitial cell responses to substrate stiffness depend on age and anatomic region. 
  • Mitral-valve repair versus replacement for severe ischemic mitral regurgitation. 
  • Multimodal Evaluation of Aortic Regurgitation After Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Repairs. 
  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae endocarditis on a prosthetic valve. 
  • One-Year Outcomes After MitraClip for Functional Mitral Regurgitation. 
  • Operator Experience and Outcomes of Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair in the United States. 
  • Outcomes in anticoagulated patients with atrial fibrillation and with mitral or aortic valve disease. 
  • Outcomes of cardiac surgery in patients > or = 80 years: results from the National Cardiovascular Network. 
  • PRO editorial: PRO: three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography is a major advance for intraoperative clinical management of patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 
  • Pacemaker Implantation After Mitral Valve Surgery With Atrial Fibrillation Ablation. 
  • Pathological healing response of explanted MitraClip devices. 
  • Patient selection for percutaneous mitral valve repair: insight from early clinical trial applications. 
  • Patient survival characteristics after routine mitral valve repair for ischemic mitral regurgitation. 
  • Percutaneous edge-to-edge leaflet repair: a solution to the risk-treatment paradox of mitral regurgitation complicated by pulmonary hypertension? 
  • Percutaneous mitral repair with the MitraClip system: safety and midterm durability in the initial EVEREST (Endovascular Valve Edge-to-Edge REpair Study) cohort. 
  • Percutaneous repair or surgery for mitral regurgitation. 
  • Performing Concomitant Tricuspid Valve Repair at the Time of Mitral Valve Operations Is Not Associated With Increased Operative Mortality. 
  • Port-access approach for combined aortic and mitral valve surgery. 
  • Postoperative valve ring aneurysm formation, coronary arteritis, and myocardial infarction in systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Pre- Versus Post-Procedure Health Care Resource Utilization in Patients Undergoing Commercial Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair. 
  • Prediction of operative mortality after valve replacement surgery. 
  • Predictors of cardiac troponin release after mitral valve surgery. 
  • Predictors of inotrope use during separation from cardiopulmonary bypass. 
  • Predictors of outcome in a multicenter port-access valve registry. 
  • Predictors of outcome of tricuspid valve replacement in carcinoid heart disease. 
  • Presence of gingivitis and periodontitis significantly increases hospital charges in patients undergoing heart valve surgery. 
  • Prevalence and Outcomes of Left-Sided Valvular Heart Disease Associated With Chronic Kidney Disease. 
  • Prognostic Implications of Mitral Annular Plane Systolic Excursion in Patients with Hypertension and a Clinical Indication for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Multicenter Study. 
  • Prosthetic mitral valve replacement: late complications after native valve preservation. 
  • Prosthetic transvalvular regurgitation diagnosed with three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography. 
  • Pulmonary dysfunction after lung transplantation: the dilemma of coexisting mitral regurgitation. 
  • Pure annular dilation as a cause of mitral regurgitation: a clinically distinct entity of female heart disease. 
  • Quantitative assessment of mitral valve coaptation using three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography. 
  • Randomized Comparison of Percutaneous Repair and Surgery for Mitral Regurgitation: 5-Year Results of EVEREST II. 
  • Real-time stereo 3D ultrasound. 
  • Recommendations regarding quantitation in M-mode echocardiography: results of a survey of echocardiographic measurements. 
  • Redo mitral surgery without transcatheter options: A case of 7 consecutive mitral operations. 
  • Relation of echocardiographic morphology of the mitral apparatus to mitral regurgitation in mitral valve prolapse: assessment by Doppler color flow imaging. 
  • Repetitive dobutamine stress echocardiography for the prediction of anthracycline cardiotoxicity. 
  • Response by Capoulade et al to Letter Regarding Article, "Impact of Left Ventricular to Mitral Valve Ring Mismatch on Recurrent Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation After Ring Annuloplasty". 
  • Right Minithoracotomy Versus Median Sternotomy for Mitral Valve Surgery: A Propensity Matched Study. 
  • Right Ventricular Function in Left Heart Disease. 
  • Robotic Mitral Valve Repair in Older Individuals: An Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database. 
  • Routine cine-CMR for prosthesis-associated mitral regurgitation: a multicenter comparison to echocardiography. 
  • Secondary mitral and tricuspid regurgitation accompanying left ventricular systolic dysfunction: is it important, and how is it treated? 
  • Sequence of mitral valve motion and transmitral blood flow during manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation in dogs. 
  • Serial echocardiographic evaluation of restenosis after successful percutaneous mitral commissurotomy. 
  • Several new considerations in mitral valve repair. 
  • Severe mitral incompetence following balloon mitral valvuloplasty: complete resolution during follow-up. 
  • Shifts in surgical revascularization and valve procedures among Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Spectrum of coronary artery disease in idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis. 
  • Stroke location, characterization, severity, and outcome in mitral vs aortic valve endocarditis. 
  • Structural valve deterioration in mitral replacement surgery: comparison of Carpentier-Edwards supra-annular porcine and perimount pericardial bioprostheses. 
  • Subperiosteal orbital hemorrhage complicating cardiac surgery. 
  • Subvalvular left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after mitral valve replacement: two-dimensional echocardiographic findings. 
  • Successful Percutaneous Mitral Paravalvular Leak Closure Is Associated With Improved Midterm Survival. 
  • Successful linking of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons database to social security data to examine survival after cardiac operations. 
  • Surgical approaches to mitral regurgitation. 
  • Surgical revascularization is associated with maximal survival in patients with ischemic mitral regurgitation: a 20-year experience. 
  • Surgical treatment of mitral valve endocarditis in North America. 
  • Survival after coronary revascularization, with and without mitral valve surgery, in patients with ischemic mitral regurgitation. 
  • Systolic anterior motion and mitral valve reserve function: which one should we care about? 
  • Ten-year experience with mitral valve replacement in the elderly. 
  • The Hostile Thoracic Aorta: Management Considerations for Severe Aortic Atheroma in a Challenging Case of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting and Mitral Valve Replacement. 
  • The MitraClip and survival in patients with mitral regurgitation at high risk for surgery: A propensity-matched comparison. 
  • The Prevalence and Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on 1-Year Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair: Results From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • The Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death in Mitral Valve Prolapse: Are All Patients Created Equal? 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 2008 cardiac surgery risk models: part 3--valve plus coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Mitral Repair/Replacement Composite Score: A Report of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Quality Measurement Task Force. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Mitral Valve Repair/Replacement Plus Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Composite Score: A Report of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Quality Measurement Task Force. 
  • The ballooning mitral valve in patients with the "precordial honk" or "whoop". 
  • The clinical utility of transesophageal echocardiography in patients with left-sided infective endocarditis. 
  • The expanding role of mitral valve repair in triple valve operations: contemporary North American outcomes in 8,021 patients. 
  • The impact of intraoperative echocardiography on clinical outcomes following adult cardiac surgery. 
  • The relationship between mitral papillary muscles positions and characteristics of the QRS complex. 
  • The risk of stroke and death in patients with aortic and mitral valve endocarditis. 
  • The utility of transesophageal echocardiography and Doppler color flow imaging in patients undergoing cardiac valve surgery. 
  • The year in cardiovascular surgery. 
  • Three-Dimensional Imaging and Systolic Anterior Motion: Providing Vision to a Sight. 
  • Tighten your belt or lose your pants? Not if it is tailored to the patient-annuloplasty during remodeling. 
  • Tissue harmonic imaging in echocardiography: better valve imaging, but at what cost? 
  • Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair With MitraClip for Symptomatic Functional Mitral Valve Regurgitation. 
  • Transcatheter and Surgical Management of Mitral Paravalvular Leak: Long-Term Outcomes. 
  • Treatment of excessive bleeding in Jehovah's Witness patients after cardiac surgery with recombinant factor VIIa (NovoSeven). 
  • Treatment of functional mitral valve regurgitation with the permanent percutaneous transvenous mitral annuloplasty system: results of the multicenter international Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Annuloplasty System to Reduce Mitral Valve Regurgitation in Patients with Heart Failure trial. 
  • Trends in mitral valve surgery in the United States: results from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. 
  • Trends in the surgical treatment of ischemic mitral regurgitation: effects of mitral valve repair on hospital mortality. 
  • Two-Year Outcomes of Surgical Treatment of Moderate Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation. 
  • Two-Year Outcomes of Surgical Treatment of Severe Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation. 
  • Two-stage total cardioaortic replacement for end-stage heart and aortic disease in Marfan syndrome: case report and review of the literature. 
  • Understanding right ventricular dysfunction and functional tricuspid regurgitation accompanying mitral valve disease. 
  • Use of Medicare Claims to Identify Adverse Clinical Outcomes After Mitral Valve Repair. 
  • Use of Multimodality Imaging in Diagnosing Invasive Fungal Diseases of the Heart. 
  • Usefulness of percutaneous balloon mitral commissurotomy in preventing the development of atrial fibrillation in patients with mitral stenosis. 
  • Valve surgery in octogenarians: in-hospital and long-term outcomes. 
  • Valve-in-Valve Transcatheter Valve Implantation in the Nonaortic Position. 
  • Valvular disease. 
  • Valvular heart disease in patients supported with left ventricular assist devices. 
  • Variable responses of mitral valve motion and flow in systemic hypertension and in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. 
  • Variation in Warfarin Use at Hospital Discharge After Isolated Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve Replacement: An Analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. 
  • Variation in warfarin thromboprophylaxis after mitral valve repair: does equipoise exist and is a randomized trial warranted? 
  • Ventricular assistant in restrictive cardiomyopathy: Making the right connection. 
  • Vigilance in Mitral Regurgitation: Variation and the Way Forward. 
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  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Swaminathan, Madhav, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic