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A Case of Ruptured Mitral Valve Aneurysm Complicating Long-Standing Aortic Regurgitation
Norihiko Matsumura1, Shinichi Fujimoto, Hiroshi Nakano
1Department of Clinico-Laboratory Diagnostics, Nara Medical University, 840 Shijocho, Kashihara, Nara 634, Japan.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|February 15, 2001
Abstract:
A 53-year-old man with aortic regurgitation was admitted to our hospital because of fever. A diagnosis of ruptured mitral valve aneurysm was made by Doppler echocardiography. Aortic regurgitant flow along the anterior mitral leaflet may have predisposed to mitral valve endocarditis, aneurysm formation, and its rupture.