LOINC long common name : Regurgitation degree Mitral valve Angiography;
LOINC short name : Reg deg MV Angio;
LOINC description : Angiography is one method for determining the degree of mitral valve regurgitation.
The Sellers grading system, originally published in 1964, is based on the opacification
of the left atrium and is still used today. The Sellers grading system is as follows:
1) a regurgitant jet is visible with minimal, rapidly clearing staining of the
left atrium; 2) evidence of a regurgitant jet with moderate but still rapidly
clearing opacification of the left atrium; 3) the left atrium is as opaque as
the left ventricle and aorta on the late films and clears slowly. A jet usually is
not seen and the left atrium is usually significantly enlarged; and 4) the
left atrium is more densely opacified than the left ventricle or the aorta. The left
atrium is usually markedly enlarged and the left ventricle is dilated. The left atrium
remains intensely opacified on the whole series of films. [PMID: 14215054];
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