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Transesophageal echocardiographic diagnosis of a dehisced Carpentier mitral ring
P Masiello1, F Itri, G Mastrogiovanni
1Division of Cardiac Surgery, S. Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi D'Aragona Hospital, Salerno, Italy. pmasiell@tin.it
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|January 12, 2001
Abstract:
We describe an unusual case of gross dehiscence of a Carpentier mitral ring, not due to bacterial endocarditis, causing severe mitral valve insufficiency and cardiac failure. Diagnosis was made by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). Mitral valve replacement was then performed.