Mid systolic notching of the pulmonary valve in the absence of pulmonary hypertension.
In a patient with idiopathic dilatation of the pulmonary artery the pulmonary valve echogram showed a prominent mid systolic closing motion or notching indistinguishable from that seen in pulmonary hypertension. Normal right ventricular and pulmonary arterial pressures were recorded simultaneously with echocardiograms of the pulmonary valve.
D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation; D011664:Pulmonary Valve / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013599:Systole