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Mitral valve echo guides
Each guide gives what to look for, the Carpentier type where it applies, the key findings, how to grade it and the pitfalls, with guideline sources, and opens the lesion in the free mitral valve simulator with colour and CW Doppler.
Native valve
- Normal valve, trace MR
- Single-scallop prolapse
- Flail leaflet (ruptured chord)
- Barlow disease (bileaflet prolapse)
- Cleft of the anterior leaflet
- Leaflet perforation
- Endocarditis
- Rheumatic mitral disease
- Mitral annular calcification
- Ischaemic MR (posterior tethering)
- Functional MR in a dilated LV (symmetric tethering)
- Atrial functional MR
- SAM-related MR in HCM
- Carpentier classification