Left ventricular outflow obstruction by a mitral valve prosthesis: Doppler ultrasound and cardiac catheterization findings.
Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction by a mitral valve prosthesis was noted several years following surgery when symptoms of congestive heart failure occurred. The diagnosis was made using two-dimensional echocardiography and Doppler techniques and confirmed at heart catheterization, using micromanometer tipped catheters.
Byrnes
T J
TJ
School of Medicine, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Shreveport 71130-3932.
Guillory
W R
WR
Hanley
H G
HG
D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*