title: Transesophageal Doppler color flow imaging in the detection of native and Björk-Shiley mitral valve regurgitation.
abstract: Regurgitant blood flow of mitral valves was studied by transesophageal Doppler color flow echocardiographic imaging in 11 healthy volunteers (Group 1), 25 cardiac patients with a native mitral valve (Group 2), 10 patients with a normally functioning Björk-Shiley mitral prosthesis without clinical evidence of mitral regurgitation (Group 3) and 10 patients with angiographic or surgical evidence of Björk-Shiley mitral valve regurgitation (Group 4). Holosystolic regurgitant color jets were classified as type I or type II. The data were compared with results obtained with precordial techniques, i.e., continuous wave and Doppler color flow echocardiographic imaging (Groups 1 to 4) and left ventricular angiography or surgery (Groups 2 and 4). In Group 1, transesophageal Doppler color flow imaging revealed no mitral regurgitant flow in 7 of the 11 patients and a type I jet in 4 patients that was detected in only 1 patient by precordial techniques. In Group 2, angiography showed no mitral regurgitation in 20 patients and documented mitral regurgitation in 5. Transesophageal Doppler color flow imaging detected in 4 of the 20 patients a type I jet that was not visualized with precordial techniques in 2 patients. Type II jets were detected by the transesophageal technique in all five patients with proven mitral regurgitation and were also visualized with precordial echocardiography. All patients in Group 3 showed two identical type I jets that were not detected with precordial echocardiography.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Taams
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Gussenhoven
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Cahalan
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Roelandt
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: van Herwerden
authors.forename: H K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: The
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bom
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: de Jong
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000379:methods*; D004947:Esophagus; D005260:Female; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000502:physiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D012016:Reference Values; D012039:Regional Blood Flow