Abstract
Valvular insufficiencies are among the most frequent heart diseases [1, 2]. Valvular flow regurgitation causes a burden of volume overload to the heart which ultimately leads to progressive heart failure [3–5]. Improved understanding of the mechanism of valvular regurgitation is of critical importance for diagnostic and therapeutic patient management [6, 7]. In addition, accurate estimation of the severity of regurgitation was demonstrated to be of significant importance for patient management and prognosis [4, 8] and consequently has been widely recognized in recent guidelines [6, 7, 9]. However, evaluation of both the mechanism and severity of regurgitation can be potentially difficult with the largest challenges presenting in cases of mitral regurgitation.
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Buck, T. (2011). Valvular heart disease – insufficiencies. In: Buck, T., Franke, A., Monaghan, M.J. (eds) Three-dimensional Echocardiography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11179-2_8
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