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"Circumnavigation": A Worthy Descriptor to Depict Torrential Mitral Regurgitation and a Reverence to Ferdinand
Robert Biederman1, Anantha Sriharsha Madgula2, Eric Bucklew1
1Cardiovascular Disease, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, USA.
Abstract:
"Circumnavigation" is never used as a verb in cardiology. Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy is a complex entity that often involves the mitral valve leading to eccentric mitral regurgitation. Utilizing multimodality imaging, assessing the severity of mitral regurgitation, and phenotyping the type of myocardial hypertrophy are achievable with certainty. We describe a case of a 42-year-old male who presented with palpitations and was ultimately diagnosed with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy with a mitral regurgitation. The torrential mitral regurgitation jet was so severe that it was "circumnavigating" the left atrium. In addition, we also draw historical parallelism with Magellan's heroic "circumnavigation" of the globe as we celebrate 500 years of his journey. Furthermore, we also describe the multimodality assessment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy utilizing transthoracic echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. We discuss the challenges in quantifying such severe mitral regurgitation with any individual imaging modality.
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