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Critical left ventricular outflow tract obstruction due to accessory mitral valve tissue
R Calabrò1, G Santoro, C Pisacane
1Pediatric Cardiology, V. Monaldi Hospital, Via Vito Lembo, 14, 84131 Salerno, Italy.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|September 9, 2000
Abstract:
Left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction due to anomalous tissue tag arising from the mitral valve is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly. It generally becomes symptomatic during the first decade of life as exercise intolerance, chest pain, or syncope at effort. To date, only a few cases of critical systemic obstruction due to isolated mitral valve anomaly in neonates have been reported. We report the case of a neonate who was a few hours old and was referred in severe clinical condition due to critical left ventricular outflow obstruction resulting from an anomalous tissue tag of mitral valve origin.