Mitral prosthetic inflow mimicking severe aortic regurgitation

Echocardiography. 2004 Jan;21(1):99-102. doi: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.02143.x.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aortic Valve Insufficiency / diagnostic imaging*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Echocardiography, Doppler, Color / methods*
  • Female
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mitral Valve / diagnostic imaging*