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[Mitral valve aneurysm. Its diagnosis by transesophageal echocardiography]
I Vilacosta1, A Camino, E Iturralde
1Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario de San Carlos, Madrid.
Revista Espanola De Cardiologia
|October 1, 1991
Abstract:
Aneurysm of the mitral valve is a rare complication of infectious endocarditis. We report a 65-years-old woman with left heart failure and mitral regurgitation secondary to a mitral valve aneurysm. The diagnosis was made by transesophageal echocardiography.