Significant congestive heart failure despite mild mitral stenosis. Anatomically mild but functionally severe mitral stenosis.
First Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Sakuragaoka 8-35-1, Kagoshima, Kagoshima 890-8520.
Yutaka
Y
Otsuji
Shuichi
S
Hamasaki
Shinichi
S
Minagoe
Ryuzo
R
Sakata
Chuwa
C
Tei
D004452:Echocardiography; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000473:pathology*; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*