> Relevant  information provided by echocardiography for the correct management  of mitral valve disease</p>
				<p LANG="en-US" ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> Echocardiography is  the most used diagnostic method in cardiology. It provides anatomical  and functional data for clinical management of patients in all  cardiac diseases.</p>
				<p LANG="en-US" ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> This article reviews  the echocardiographic evaluation of the different anatomic causes of  mitral regurgitation, determination of its severity, treatment  strategies and prognosis.</p>
				<p LANG="en-US" ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> In mitral stenosis,  morphological appearance of mitral valve and methods used to assess  the valve area were discussed. This information is essential for  selecting patients to percutaneous dilatation, which is, nowadays,  the therapeutic of choice.</p>
				<p LANG="en-US" ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> Considering all data  provided by this method, echocardiography has become extremely  important in all steps of clinical management of patients with mitral  valve disease.</p>
				<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> <SPAN LANG="en-US"><strong>Key  words: </strong>mitral valve; echocardiography; mitral valve  insufficiency; mitral valve stenosis; balloon dilatation.</SPAN></p>
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