The normal mitral valve permits unrestricted antegrade diastolic flow from the left ... MR occurs either due to disease involving the mitral valve apparatus, known as primary MR (or “organic ...

A diastolic thrill was palpable, however, over the septal leaflet of the mitral valve in each case, thereby indicating the presence of insufficiency of the aortic valve. In the original report the ...

or infiltrative heart disease; (ii) organic mitral lesions, such as a prolapsed valve, rheumatic disease, or papillary muscle rupture; (iii) more than trace aortic regurgitation; (iv) acute MI ...

Diastolic murmurs ... diastolic), and mitral or tricuspid stenosis (mid-late diastolic). Tricuspid stenosis is very rare and is discussed further in the valvular heart disease section.

The association between higher cardiac troponin levels and the development of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in ... Assessment of mitral valve geometry in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation ...