mitral stenosis

A narrowing of the mitral valve, usually caused by disease and resulting in an obstruction to the flow of blood from the left atrium to the left ventricle.

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Noun

mitral stenosis - obstruction or narrowing of the mitral valve (as by scarring from rheumatic fever)

mitral valve stenosis

stenosis, stricture - abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway

valvular heart disease - heart disease caused by stenosis of the cardiac valves and obstructed blood flow or caused by degeneration and blood regurgitation

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mi·tral ste·no·sis

n. estenosis mitral, estrechez del orificio izquierdo aurículo-ventricular.

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Echocardiography was consistent with rheumatic mitral stenosis (Figure 1c-d, Video 2).

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This medical condition is called mitral stenosis. The increase in occurrence of rheumatic fever is subsequently surging the number of people suffering from mitral stenosis.

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In mitral stenosis balloon mitral valvuloplasty is the procedure of choice for most patients with mitral stenosis, he remarked.

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As she got older, she began to develop mitral stenosis, a narrowing of the mitral valve that regulates blood flow from the left atrium to the left ventricle.

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Keywords: End-diastolic trans-mitral gradient, Percutaneous transvenous mitral Commissurotomy, Mitral Stenosis.

A STUDY OF CLINICAL AND ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC OUTCOMES OF PERCUTANEOUS TRANSVENOUS MITRAL COMMISSUROTOMY FOR MITRAL STENOSIS

Sheena Joseph, a pregnant mother of three children was facing breathing difficulties as a result of an unusual form of heart disease, Rheumatic Valvular Mitral Stenosis.

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Mitral stenosis is the most common valvular pathology between RMVD.

Emergent surgical treatment of lethal valve dysfunction during pregnancy in a last-trimester patient

[14] These data are consistent with those in a study of 80 women with rheumatic valve stenosis, which reported pulmonary oedema in mild (24%), moderate (34%) and severe (56%) cases of mitral stenosis during pregnancy.

Cardiac disease in pregnancy: When to raise the 'red flag'

The first approach is to perform edge-to-edge (Alfieri) repair with a clip or suture, which opposes the centers of the two mitral leaflets producing a double-barrel opening for reducing the MR while avoiding mitral stenosis. (7) The other approach is insertion of a device in the CS for attempting to mimic the effects of a surgically-placed annuloplasty ring.

Percutaneous Carillon Mitral Contour System Deployment Followed by CRT-D Implantation: First Case Report from Oman

* Severe mitral stenosis or severe symptomatic aortic stenosis.

HIGH MORTALITY: Pregnant women with WHO IV cardiac disease are at risk

Although DOACs are not approved for AFib caused by valve damage, they are used with increasing frequency in patients with rheumatic heart disease or mitral stenosis, as well.

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