Left ventricular chamber enlargement and hypertrophy (increased wall thickness) take place in order to maintain a normal forward cardiac output in chronic aortic regurgitation (Heart’s the Heart ...

The chest radiograph is also non-specific in aortic regurgitation. Cardiomegaly is present in patients with chronic aortic regurgitation. In acute aortic regurgitation, pulmonary edema is almost ...

Background: There are insufficient data regarding how to deal with moderate aortic valve (AV) dysfunction during rheumatic mitral valve (MV) surgery. In this study, the clinical outcomes of patients ...