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Editorial
. 2018 Apr;11(4):e007642.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.118.007642.

Mitral Valve Adaptation: Can We Win the Race?

Dae-Hee Kim  1 , Jacob P Dal-Bianco  1 , Elena Aikawa  1 , Joyce Bischoff  1 , Robert A Levine  2
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Editorial

Mitral Valve Adaptation: Can We Win the Race?

Dae-Hee Kim et al. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2018 Apr.
No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; echocardiography, three-dimensional; mitral valve; mitral valve insufficiency; myocardial infarction.

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Normal leaflet coaptation (left) is assisted by the ability of the leaflets to stretch in response to systolic pressure. Acute MI increases leaflet tethering, but without the opportunity for compensatory increases in mitral leaflet area, MR results (center). Over time (right), there is the additional competition between adaptive growth and pro-fibrotic changes with leaflet thickening and stiffening that limit both systolic stretch and coaptation. (Figure courtesy of Mark D. Handschumacher.)
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