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A 3-month-old female infant with a rare hammock mitral valve presented with heart failure, left atrial dilatation, severe mitral valve insufficiency, and atrial flutter.
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This case highlights that a hammock mitral valve can lead to severe mitral insufficiency, left atrial dilatation, and rare pediatric arrhythmias such as atrial flutter in infants.
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Alerts to hammock mitral valve in infants with heart failure and flutter; extends sparse case reports but leaves optimal management open.
Hammock mitral valve is a very rare congenital valve disorder It may lead to mitral stenosis or insufficiency in the pediatric age group These patients generally present with the symptoms of congestive heart failure or sometimes sudden death may occur Our case was a 3 month old female infant who presented to our clinic with the symptoms of heart failure Her cardiac evaluation revealed hammock mitral valve left atrial dilatation severe mitral valve insufficiency and atrial flutter In contrast to adult patients atrial flutter is a very rare type of cardiac aryhtmia in the pediatric age group We present this case because no such case with atrial flutter resulting from hammock mitral valve has been reported in the literature Turk Arch Ped 2013; 48: 244 247
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Tunaoğlu et al. (2013) conducted a case report in Hammock mitral valve, heart failure, atrial flutter (n=1). Hammock mitral valve was evaluated on Clinical presentation. A 3-month-old female infant with a rare hammock mitral valve presented with heart failure, left atrial dilatation, severe mitral valve insufficiency, and atrial flutter.
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