Discrimination between fibroelastic deficiency and Barlow disease using parameters of mitral annulus derived from real-time three-dimensional echocardiography

摘要

Background Discrimination between fibroelastic deficiency (FED) and Barlow disease (BD) is crucial for decision making in mitral valve surgery as BD is a more complex lesion demanding high surgical skill and experience. In our study we focused on the differentiation of FED from BD using three-dimensional (3D) echocardiographic parameters of the mitral annulus assessed by the mitral valve quantification (MVQ) program.