Key result
Review outlines mitral valve anatomy and congenital abnormalities to guide echocardiographic diagnosis.
Why the study?
Congenital disorders of the mitral valve complex can cause hemodynamic changes and clinical signs that contribute to misdiagnosis, necessitating knowledge of morphological features for accurate echocardiographic identification.
This review describes the normal anatomy and congenital abnormalities of the mitral valve complex to aid in accurate echocardiographic diagnosis.
May aid echocardiographic diagnosis of congenital mitral valve anomalies; leaves open prospective validation of diagnostic criteria.
The mitral valve complex is a multicomponent anatomically and functionally coordinated formation, ensuring the activity of the left ventricle and, in general, the heart. Congenital disorders of the structure, quantity, and form of the mitral complex components can be asymptomatic or cause hemodynamic changes that require surgery. Often, clinical signs of mitral complex abnormalities are manifested as mitral stenosis, regurgitation or its combination and contribute to misdiagnosis. To identify the morphological features of abnormalities by echocardiography, it is necessary to know the possible structure aberrations. The article describes the normal anatomy of the mitral valve complex and abnormalities of the fibrous ring, valve leaflets, papillary muscles and chordae tendineae.
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Е. Trysvetava (2020) conducted a review in Malformations of the mitral valve complex. The article reviews the normal anatomy and morphological features of congenital abnormalities of the mitral valve complex to aid in accurate echocardiographic diagnosis.
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