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Echocardiography revealed a rare congenital malformation consisting of a trileaflet mitral valve sustained by three papillary muscles in a young girl with subaortic stenosis.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report describes a rare congenital echocardiographic finding of a trileaflet mitral valve with three papillary muscles.
Rare congenital mitral anomalies warrant careful preoperative imaging; extends anatomic descriptions but leaves therapeutic implications open.
Congenital mitral valve malformations are rare, but are well known and described entities. Mitral valve malformations involve mitral valve apparatuses (leaflets and annulus) and subvalvar apparatuses (chordae and papillary muscle). Case reports of accessory mitral leaflets were already described, but were usually an appendix of the normal valve. We describe here a case report and present the images of a trileaflet mitral valve sustained by three papillary muscles in a young girl with subaortic stenosis.
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Kozak et al. (2011) conducted a case report in Congenital mitral valve malformation and subaortic stenosis (n=1). Echocardiography was evaluated on Echocardiographic identification of mitral valve anatomy. Echocardiography revealed a rare congenital malformation consisting of a trileaflet mitral valve sustained by three papillary muscles in a young girl with subaortic stenosis.
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