Chest Email Content Delivery
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Guest Access | Sign In via User Name/Password
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF) Free
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Article Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Cosby, R. S.
Right arrow Articles by Boomershine, P.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Cosby, R. S.
Right arrow Articles by Boomershine, P.
(Chest. 1974;66:642-646.)
© 1974 American College of Chest Physicians

The Echocardiogram in Nonrheumatic Mitral Insufficiency

Richard S. Cosby M.D., F.C.C.P.1; John A. Giddings M.D.2; Jackie R. See M.D.2; Mary Mayo B.S.3; and Paul Boomershine 3

1 Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Southern California School of Medicine; Director, Pasadena Cardiovascular Research Foundation
2 Associate, Pasadena Cardiovascular Research Foundation
3 Pasadena Cardiovascular Research Foundation

Echocardiography is the procedure of choice in separating rheumatic and nonrheumatic types of mitral insufficiency, and usually provides fair quantitative data to substantiate the degree of insufficiency. Angiography, in contrast, rarely furnishes additional information, and is usually less informative than echocardiography in the diagnosis of mitral insufficiency and its variants. Echocardiography will not routinely differentiate the subvarieties of mitral insufficiency, though it occasionally is diagnostic in establishing the presence of a ruptured chord or papillary muscle injury.

Submitted on April 1, 1974
Accepted on May 24, 1974






HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 1974 by the American College of Chest Physicians.