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! Mild  
! style="width:250px" | Mild  
! Moderate  
! style="width:200px" colspan="2" | Moderate  
! Severe
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! Specific signs of severity
! Specific signs of severity
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<li>Small central jet &lt;4 cm<sup>2</sup> or &lt;20% of LA area&psi;</li>
<li>Small central jet &lt;4 cm<sup>2</sup> or &lt;20% of LA area<sup>&psi;</sup></li>
<li>Vena contracta width &lt;0.3 cm</li>
<li>Vena contracta width &lt;0.3 cm</li>
<li>No or minimal flow convergence</li>
<li>No or minimal flow convergence</li>
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| style="vertical-align:top" colspan="2" | Signs of MR&gt;mild present, but no criteria for severe MR
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<li>Vena contracta width &ge; 0.7cm <em>with</em> large central MR jet (area &lt; 40% of LA) or with a wall-impinging jet of any size, swirling in LA<sup>&psi;</sup></li>
<li>Large flow convergence<sup>&sigmaf;</sup></li>
<li>Systolic reversal in pulmonary veins</li>
<li>Prominent flail MV leaflet or ruptured papillary muscle</li>
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! Supportive signs
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<li>Systolic dominant flow in pulmonary veins</li>
<li>A-wave dominant mitral inflow<sup>&Phi;</sup></li>
<li>Soft density, parabolic CW Doppler MR signal</li>
<li>Normal LV size<sup>&lowast;</sup></li>
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| style="vertical-align:top" colspan="2" | Intermediate signs/findings
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<li>Dense, triangular CW Doppler MR jet</li>
<li>E-wave dominant mitral inflow (E &gt;1.2 m/s)<sup>&Phi;</sup> Enlarged LV and LA size<sup>&lowast;&lowast;</sup>, (particularly when normal LV function is present).</li>
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| colspan="5" | '''Quantitative parameters<sup>&phi;</sup>'''
 
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| style="padding-left:12px" | R Vol (ml/beat)
| align="center" | &lt; 30
| align="center" | 30-44
| align="center" | 45-59
| align="center" | &ge; 60
 
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| style="padding-left:12px" | RF (%)
| align="center" | &lt; 30
| align="center" | 30-39
| align="center" | 40-49
| align="center" | &ge; 50


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| style="padding-left:12px" | EROA (cm<sup>2</sup>)
| align="center" | &lt; 0.20
| align="center" | 0.20-0.29
| align="center" | 0.30-0.39
| align="center" | &ge; 0.40
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| colspan="5" | <ul><li><em>CW</em>, Continuous wave; <em>EROA</em>, effective regurgitant orifice area; <em>LA</em>, left atrium; <em>LV</em>, left ventricle; <em>MV</em>, mitral valve; <em>MR</em>, mitral regurgitation; <em>R Vol</em>, regurgitant volume; <em>RF</em>, regurgitant fraction.</li></ul>
<sup>&lowast;</sup> LV size applied only to chronic lesions. Normal 2D measurements: LV minor axis
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