Successful management of multiple infected sub-mitral aneurysms of left ventricle

Sub-mitral aneurysms are rarely reported clinical entity. Though a variety of etiologies are proposed, congenital weakness of the mitral valve annulus is the most widely accepted one. A 17-year-old boy with sub-mitral aneurysm presented with severe mitral regurgitation, which was diagnosed by echoca...

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Autores principales: Nair, Vinitha Viswambharan, Kalra, Rajat, Narang, Rajiv, Airan, Balram
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24701086
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.126555
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author Nair, Vinitha Viswambharan
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description Sub-mitral aneurysms are rarely reported clinical entity. Though a variety of etiologies are proposed, congenital weakness of the mitral valve annulus is the most widely accepted one. A 17-year-old boy with sub-mitral aneurysm presented with severe mitral regurgitation, which was diagnosed by echocardiography and successfully managed surgically. The aneurysm wall was positive for Staphylococcus aureus, and patient was treated with intensive antibiotics.
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spelling pubmed-39590612014-04-03 Successful management of multiple infected sub-mitral aneurysms of left ventricle Nair, Vinitha Viswambharan Kalra, Rajat Narang, Rajiv Airan, Balram Ann Pediatr Cardiol Case Report Sub-mitral aneurysms are rarely reported clinical entity. Though a variety of etiologies are proposed, congenital weakness of the mitral valve annulus is the most widely accepted one. A 17-year-old boy with sub-mitral aneurysm presented with severe mitral regurgitation, which was diagnosed by echocardiography and successfully managed surgically. The aneurysm wall was positive for Staphylococcus aureus, and patient was treated with intensive antibiotics. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3959061/ /pubmed/24701086 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.126555 Text en Copyright: © Annals of Pediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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