Mitral prosthetic inflow mimicking severe aortic regurgitation.
We describe two patients in whom mitral valve prosthetic inflow mimicked severe aortic regurgitation. Repeat transthoracic echocardiography using multiple transducer angulations and a narrow color Doppler sector angle in one patient and a color Doppler M-Mode study in the second patient proved useful in excluding the presence of severe aortic regurgitation.
Baweja
Gurpreet
G
Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA.
Nanda
Navin C
NC
Hans
Anil K
AK
Liguori
Chiara
C
Fadel
Ahmad
A
Dod
Harvinder
H
Ravi
Barugur
B
D000328:Adult; D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*