Eleven patients with fossa ovalis atrial septal defects and prolapse of the posterior cusp of the mitral valve are described. Six patients had clinical evidence of mitral regurgitation, and in 2 others the electrocardiogram was unusual for uncomplicated fossa ovalis atrial septal defects. The varied appearance of the prolapsed cusp was shown by left ventricular angiography. The principal signif...

Mitral valve reoperation, through a median sternotomy, for a patient with patent coronary bypass grafts is technically challenging and carries higher postoperative morbidity and mortality than a primary operation. We present a case of mitral valve repair using a beating heart technique under normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass that was performed 3 years after a coronary artery bypass operation....

Background and Purpose: Candida endocarditis is an infrequent disease with a high mortality rate, which commonly occurs in immunosuppressed patients with cardiac valve replacement. We reported a 70-year-old woman diagnosed with Candida prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE). This study also involved a review of all published cases of Candida PVE from 1970. Case report: Herein, we reported a 70-ye...

DOI: 10.5935/abc.20160107 Primary mitral valve regurgitation is the most frequent valvular pathology, affecting approximately 1.7% of the population, with prolapsed mitral as the highlighted etiology.1 In developing countries, such as Brazil, rheumatic fever is still widely prevalent (18.6/1000), and affects about 15.6 million people worldwide.2,3 Currently, the recommendation of mitral surgery...

This study included 40 patients over 60 years of age with echocardiographic findings of mitral valve prolapse (MVP). Most of these patients were unaware of any cardiac disorder until the time of echocardiography. In the majority, the clinical manifestations were benign, and the duration of symptoms variable. Congestive heart failure (CHF) was noted in 10 patients (25 percent) who were unaware o...

A75-year-old woman with atrial fibrillation and progressive heart failure had a transthoracic echocardiogram that showed an enlarged left atrium with a heterogeneous, echodense mass close to the septal base of the mitral valve. During diastole, this mass prolapsed through the mitral annulus into the left ventricle. Severe dyspnea and arrhythmia nullified standard cardiactriggered breath-hold ci...

BACKGROUND The typical cardiac manifestations of Marfan syndrome are aortic regurgitation with progressive dilatation of the aortic root, which may cause dissection and rupture of the ascending aorta, mitral valve prolapse and mitral valve regurgitation. In this study, we aimed to show echocardiographic findings in 11 patients with Marfan syndrome. METHODS Diagnosis of Marfan syndrome was bas...

Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is defined as posterior displacement of all or part of MV leaflet(s) beyond MV annulus at least 2 mm into the left atrium (LA) during systole, with or without mitral leaflet thickening, but prolapsed leaflet(s) pointing towards apex in systole [1]. Mitral regurgitation (MR) is a common complication of MVP. Moreover, MVP with flail leaflet(s) is a severe form of MVP w...