Research Article

Relation of Mitral Annulus and Left Atrial Dysfunction to the Severity of Functional Mitral Regurgitation in Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy

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Dynamic changes of the mitral annulus geometry parameters during the cardiac systole in patients with functional mitral regurgitation (in red) and in control subjects (in green). AP: anteroposterior; ALPM: anterolateral-posteromedial; MA: mitral annulus; MVC: mitral valve closure. āˆ—Statistically significant at every analyzed reference frame, .