Patient Population
AR patients who applied to the echocardiography laboratory of our
hospital within a year were examined. Following the ethics approval of
the local ethics committee, the consent of the patients who were
included in the study was obtained. 98 patients were examined in our
study.
18 patients were excluded from the study due to the coexisting
additional cardiac pathology (more than mild), 6 due to the low image
quality and 10 due to the fact that the specialists who performed the
examination had different opinions about the degree of regurgitation. 64
patients were included in our study after using exclusion criteria
(Figure 1). Patients divided according to the aortic regurgitation
degree in three groups as mild (n: 22) - moderate (n: 15) or severe (n:
27). All of the patients who met both exclusion and inclusion criteria
were consecutively included in the study.
FLOW CHART Figure 1