Key result
Mitral valve replacement treats severe isolated hammock mitral valve in a pediatric patient.
Why the study?
The hammock mitral valve is a rare congenital abnormality that is difficult to correct by reconstructive techniques and may require valve replacement.
Describes a rare case of an isolated hammock mitral valve in a pediatric patient managed with mitral valve replacement.
Documents successful MVR for rare pediatric hammock mitral valve; extends limited case literature without supporting practice change.
The hammock mitral valve is a rare congenital abnormality resulting in mitral regurgitation or stenosis, with incidences ranging from 0% to 12% in pediatric surgical series. It is difficult to correct this condition by reconstructive techniques. We describe here an alone hammock valve without any cardiac malformation in a five-year-old patient who underwent mitral valve replacement.
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Ulaş et al. (2009) studied this question. Mitral valve replacement was performed to treat a five-year-old patient with an isolated hammock mitral valve, a rare congenital abnormality difficult to correct by reconstructive techniques.
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