Deborah L. Fuller

TL;DR: A substantial proportion of healthy men and women had detectable valvular regurgitation by color Doppler echocardiography, and population-based estimates for comparison with patients taking anorectic drugs are provided.

TL;DR: The prevalence of mitral-valve prolapse in the general population, as diagnosed with the use of current two-dimensional echocardiographic criteria, was lower than previously reported.

TL;DR: In an elderly, longitudinally followed population-based cohort, mitral annular calcification was associated with a doubled risk of stroke, independently of traditional risk factors for stroke.

TL;DR: Normative Doppler values and determinants of left ventricular (LV) diastolic function in healthy subjects have not been fully elucidated and body mass index, left atrial diameter, and LV wall thickness, internal dimension and mass have little or no association with Dopple indexes in healthySubjects from the Framingham Heart Study were examined to describe reference values andeterminants of echocardiographic Dopplers indexes of diastolics function.

TL;DR: In this paper, the echocardiographic features and associations of mitral valve prolapse (MVP) diagnosed by current two-dimensional echOCardiographic criteria in an unselected outpatient sample were examined.