The authors examined heart chamber remodeling following successful PMVR.
A volumetric approach was applied on the basis of 3D TTE data sets to search for dimensional changes of all cardiac chambers simultaneously and to serially analyze LV morphologic remodeling.
Effective valve repair is mainly associated with decreased LV loading, but it involves all cardiac chambers.
Favorable remodeling in LV shape from an abnormally spherical to a more normal conical shape takes place.
Three-dimensional echocardiographic analysis allows investigation of the entity and modality of double-perspective (volume and morphologic) changes involved in PMVR outcomes.