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5 Jacques Cartier Private Hospital, Sorbonne University, Paris, France. In sub-Saharan Africa, mitral valve disease is particularly prevalent, with isolated mitral regurgitation observed in 52.8% of ...

Introduction: The mitral valve annulus naturally adopts a saddle shape in systole, likely concentrating systolic stress on the commissures where fibrous trigones are located. This study hypothesized ...

the line of coaptation in the mitral valve is destroyed. If the ventricle dilates, if you think about it, the annulus pulls apart and all of a sudden coaptation no longer can occur. Or ...

Ectopic calcification disorders, including Generalized Arterial Calcification of Infancy (GACI) and Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum are rare but impactful on individuals, healthcare and society, with ...

When considering the complexity of the mitral valve apparatus, it is useful to classify the transcatheter approaches according to the major structural abnormality that they address. 19 Unlike the ...