Prominent pulmonary venous flow mimicking mitral regurgitation.

Swetha Srialluri Mohammed J Arisha Ahmed AbdelhaleemAdel A FarhoudMohamed S MahmoudAhmed Y SalamaBashar IbecheAyman BattishaNavin C Nanda

Published in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2017)

The present case highlights a potential pitfall in assessing mitral regurgitation severity due to the presence of similar colored prominent pulmonary vein signals in the left atrium during color Doppler examination.

Keyphrases

pulmonary hypertension
pulmonary artery
inferior vena cava
blood flow
left atrial appendage
human health
coronary artery
climate change