A Remnant Mitral Subvalvular Apparatus Mimicking Aortic Valve Vegetation after Mitral Valve Replacement

Preservation of the subvalvular apparatus has the merits of postoperative outcomes during mitral valve replacement for mitral regurgitation. We performed mitral valve replacement with anterior and posterior leaflet chordal preservation in a 65-year-old woman. On the 2nd postoperative day, routine po...

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Autores principales: Kim, Hyun-Jin, Kim, Kyung-Hee, Choi, Jae-Sung, Kim, Jun-Sung, Kim, Myung-A, Zo, Joo-Hee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Echocardiography 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3324732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22509443
http://dx.doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2012.20.1.63
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Sumario:Preservation of the subvalvular apparatus has the merits of postoperative outcomes during mitral valve replacement for mitral regurgitation. We performed mitral valve replacement with anterior and posterior leaflet chordal preservation in a 65-year-old woman. On the 2nd postoperative day, routine postoperative trans-thoracic echocardiography showed an unknown aortic subvalvular mobile mass. We report a case of a remnant mitral subvalvular apparatus detected by echocardiography after chordal preserving mitral valve replacement which was confused with postoperative aortic valve vegetation.

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