OBJECTIVE Mitral valve insufficiency must be treated by repair whenever as possible as it provides better results - especially within the pediatric population in order to avoid valve replacement inconvenients. The aim of this study is to describe mitral valve repair technique based on an anatomical and functional approach. METHODS During a 13 months period, eight children (age ranged from 2 a...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to evaluate LV function, by means of echocardiography, after mitral valve repair (MVr) or mitral valve replacement (MVR) in patients (pts) with chronic degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR) and depressed LV systolic function during a 6-years follow-up (FU) period. PATIENTS AND METHODS Forty-five pts with moderately severe or severe MR and preoperative EF<...

In five dogs (18 to 28 kg) under pentobarbital anesthesia metal clips were placed on the free margin of the anterior and posterior mitral valve leaflets, and on the epicardial surface of the left ventricle at the apex and at the base. After full recovery cineangiograms were taken in the right anterior oblique and right lateral position and the length from the apex of the left ventricle to the f...

Tricuspid valve dysplasia (TVD) is a congenital deformity of tricuspid valve (TV), chordae tendineae, or papillary muscles resulting in insufficiency of tricuspid valve. The downward displacement of tricuspid valve leaflets into the right ventricle (RV) i.e. right ventricular atrialization results in a rare malformation called Ebstein’s anomaly [1,2]. No doubt tricuspid valve dysplasia in dogs ...

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in surgical reconstruction of the insufficient mitral valve because of reconfirmation of the limitations of existing prosthetic and bioprosthetic valves. A follow-up study, including late functional data, of 148 patients who underwent mitral valve reconstruction at our institution was combined with a review of the literature to assess the curre...

Described in three infants is an anomaly of the mitral valvular mechanism which has the following characteristic: connection of the left ventricular papillary muscles to the anterior mitral leaflet, either directly or through the interposition of unusually short chordae. The condition has been named "anomalous mitral arcade." The anatomic aberration appears to cause incompetence of the mitral v...

The chordae tendineae of the heart are collagenous strands which extend from the apical margin of papillary muscles of the heart to the various areas on the ventricular surface of the valve leaflets. They convey the contraction of the papillary muscles to the valve and so prevent the latter’s eversion. Eight hearts of the ostrich were collected, opened the left side of the heart and the length ...

We describe a case of mitral valve annular dilatation caused by a huge left atrial myxoma obstructing the mitral valve orifice. A 50-year-old man presenting with palpitation was found to have a huge left atrial myxoma protruding into the left ventricle during diastole, causing severe mitral regurgitation. The diagnosis was made with echocardiogram. Transoesophageal echocardiography revealed a s...