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Mitral Doppler tracing

Posted by: Johnson Francis on: 04 Jan, 2009

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The upward jet with an M shape is the diastolic jet of mitral stenosis (MS). The initial peak is the E wave of early diastole and later peak is the A wave of atrial systole. In mitral stenosis, there is no gap between the two as the pressure [...]