This valve is attached to the heart in two separate locations—one to the mitral annulus and the other, through the chords, to the papillary muscle apparatus—and both move with ventricular ...

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1 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 2 Faculty of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Objective We ...

18 The MV apparatus should be systematically evaluated in HCM, including leaflets, chordae and papillary muscles. Anomalous chordae insertion may tent the mitral leaflet anteriorly towards the flow ...

Background Although the prognostic implications of severe mitral regurgitation (MR) are well recognised, they are less clear in moderate MR. We therefore explored the prognostic impact of both ...

The LVOT obstruction from septal contact with the anterior mitral valve leaflet may be difficult to assess with CMRI at times, as there may be a signal void due to spin dephasing within the ...

A 3D endoscopic camera developed about six years ago has made minimally invasive surgery more accessible for Rochester-area ...

"It was the scene of a state-organized crime," said Heubner. "And the crime was setting up an industrial apparatus to kill people." It took decades before a wider process of confronting the ...

Despite high penetrance, one of the unexplained features of MFS and related fibrillinopathies is the prominent phenotype variation in the timing of onset, tissue distribution, and severity of ...

Background The Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) are heritable disorders of connective tissue (HDCT), reclassified in the 2017 nosology into 13 subtypes. The genetic basis for hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos ...

The lungs conceptually represent a sponge that is interposed in series in the bodies’ systemic circulation to take up oxygen and eliminate carbon dioxide. As such, it matches the huge surface areas of ...