Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Korean Society of Echocardiography (한국심초음파학회)
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A REMNANT MITRAL SUBVALVULAR APPARATUS MIMICKING AORTIC VALVE VEGETATION AFTER MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT

  • Kim, Hyun-Jin (Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Kyung-Hee (Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital) ;
  • Choi, Jae-Sung (Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Jun-Sung (Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Myung-A (Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital) ;
  • Zo, Joo-Hee (Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital)
  • Received : 2011.11.24
  • Accepted : 2012.02.16
  • Published : 2012.03.27
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Abstract

Preservation of the subvalvular apparatus has the merits of postoperative outcomes during mitral valve replacement for mitral regurgitation. We performed mitral valve replacement with anterior and posterior leaflet chordal preservation in a 65-year-old woman. On the 2nd postoperative day, routine postoperative trans-thoracic echocardiography showed an unknown aortic subvalvular mobile mass. We report a case of a remnant mitral subvalvular apparatus detected by echocardiography after chordal preserving mitral valve replacement which was confused with postoperative aortic valve vegetation.

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