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Accessory fibrous band causing anterior mitral valve leaflet restriction
Irmien Vlassak1, Muhammed Mumtaz, Gosta Pettersson
1Department of Cardiology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|August 14, 2002
Abstract:
A 20-year-old woman with neurofibromatosis (type I), presented with heart failure due to severe mitral regurgitation. Echocardiography and surgery revealed an accessory fibrous band causing anterior mitral valve leaflet restriction. Resection of the fibrous band and correction of the mitral valve using the accessory fibrous band was performed. The further postoperative course was uncomplicated.