Clinical and echocardiographic correlates of postoperative LV function after mitral valve surgery in patients with severe mitral incompetence /

Mohamed Ahmed Adel Abdelwahab

Clinical and echocardiographic correlates of postoperative LV function after mitral valve surgery in patients with severe mitral incompetence / دلالات الفحص الإكلينيكى والفحص بالموجات فوق الصوتية لكفاءة البطين الأيسر بعد جراحة الصمام المترالى فى مرضى الإرتجاع الشديد بالصمام المترالى Mohamed Ahmed Adel Abdelwahab ; Supervised Zeinab Attia Ashour , Ahmed Hussien Gaafer , Hussien Heshmat Kasem - Cairo : Mohamed Ahmed Adel Abdelwahab , 2012 - 147P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Cardiology

Severe mitral regurgitation (MR) is associated with reduced afterload and overestimated ejection fraction (EF) Correction MR may result in significant decline of EF in some patients . Aim : Determine the predictors of postoperative decline of EF in patients with severe MR after mitral valve surgery . Results : The mean age of patients was 33 ±12.7 years and 63.3% were females . the cause of MR was rheumatic in 20 patients myxomatous in 10 patients



6. Minulue walk test - mitral valve surgery Left ventricular ejecfion fraction Severe mitral incompetence
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