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Hypovolemia-induced reversible severe mitral regurgitation due to left ventricular outflow tract obstruction
Boaz Rosen1, Michael Kriwisky, Yoseph Rozenman
1The Heart Institute, E. Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, 58-100, Israel. dharecho@netvision.net.il
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|December 19, 2002
Abstract:
We describe a hypertensive patient who developed profound cardiogenic shock after treatment with nitrates and diuretics. Echocardiography revealed a marked left ventricular outflow tract obstruction with severe mitral regurgitation that were reversible after aggressive fluid therapy.