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Echo MasterClass

Mitral Regurgitation

Chapter 12

Presenter: Prof. Thomas Binder, MD, FESC

1:41:00

2 credits

What you will learn

This chapter will provide you with in-depth knowledge that will help you determine the severity of mitral regurgitation. You will learn which factors determine whether a patient should undergo valve surgery and what the mechanism of mitral regurgitation is. A special section will be dedicated to practical issues such as how to view the specific portions of the mitral valve and how to find the origin of a jet.

Prognosis, hemodynamics, cause
Quantification
Imaging
Mechanism
Indications for surgery

Video lectures

Quiz

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Cases

Last Retreat

Only one therapeutic option left in a patient with mitral regurgiation

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Blinded by the Light

Don't focus too much on one pathology, you might miss another one

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From the edge

Detection of mitral regurgitation is not always straight forward

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Fibrosis

Can medical therapy treat mitral regurgitation?

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In search of a hole

See this case and learn how to determine the origin of an MR jet

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Do we need 3D

3D views of the mitral valve. Are they of any help at all

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Coming late

See how correct timing of events plays an important role in valvular heart disease

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Case stories

Jet Direction and the Mechanism of Mitral Regurgitation

Patient demo: echo secrets.

Patterns

Ultrasound: In very complex and variable situations “recognition of patterns” is most important.

Elementary Watson

Exertional Dyspnea: Mrs. Mary, a 62 year old woman from southern Austria, entered the echo lab....

Gemini Part 2

Remember one of the last cases in which I wrote about heart failure and mitral regurgitation? Well, here is the sequel...

Gemini Part I

As doctors we are usually responsible for the life of ONE patient. However, this is not always the case...

The Garden Hose Effect

It is common wisdom that the direction of a regurgitant jet reveals the mechanism of mitral regurgitation...

Distrust

Would you board an airplane if you thought the pilot didn't know how to fly? Would you give your money to a financial consultant who had a bad service record?

The Road to Nowhere? Part 2

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Well sometimes there is a distant light - it may be faint, but it does give hope. Read this ultrasound case.

The Road to Nowhere

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Imagine you have a patient who is in desperate need of some kind of treatment, but none of the options are very appealing.

Fact sheets

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