[A transesophageal color-coded pulsed Doppler echocardiographic study of the spatial distribution of mitral regurgitation jets].

Objective: Transesophageal echocardiographic analysis of color Doppler characteristics of mitral valvular regurgitation jets.

Design: Transesophageal echocardiographic prospective study.

Setting: Ambulatory patients referred to Echocardiographic Laboratory of Gregorio Marañon General Hospital, Madrid, Spain.

[A pulsed Doppler transesophageal echocardiographic study of pulmonary venous flow in mitral regurgitation jets in the parietal direction].

Objective: Transesophageal echocardiographic analysis of the degree of severity of mitral regurgitation eccentric wall jets by color Doppler and pulsed Doppler interrogation of the pulmonary venous flow.

Design: Transesophageal echocardiographic prospective study.

Setting: consecutive out and in patients referred to the Echocardiographic Laboratory of Gregorio Marañon General Hospital, Madrid, Spain.

[Transesophageal echocardiography study with dynamic spontaneous contrast of the left atrial appendage, its relationship with the anatomy and thrombus formation].

Objective: Transesophageal two-dimensional echocardiographic study of anatomical characteristics of the left atrial appendage and its relation to spontaneous dynamic echocardiographic contrast.

Design: Outpatients undergoing a prospective two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiographic study.

Setting: Consecutive outpatients studied at the Echocardiographic Laboratory of Gregorio Marañon General Hospital, Madrid.