Analysis of Procedural Effects of Percutaneous Edge-to-Edge Mitral Valve Repair by 2D and 3D Echocardiography.

The article presents a study that determines the functional and morphological effects of percutanous mitral valve repair (PMVR) using three dimensional (3D) transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). It shows that patients in whom vena contrata area could be reduced >50% had a smaller preprocedural mitral annulus area. It indicates that TEE demonstrates significant reduction of regurgitant volume after PMVR.