Clinicians should be aware that retrograde left heart catheterization can cause factitious mitral insufficiency when assessing prosthetic mitral valves.
Medical Intelligence from The New England Journal of Medicine — Factitious Mitral Insufficiency — A Pitfall in the Hemodynamic Assessment of Prosthetic Mitral Valves by Retrograde Catheterization of the Left Side of the Heart
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