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Two-dimensional echocardiographic observation of dehiscence of mitral plication annuloplasty suture
1Division of Cardiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Changgeng Yi Xue Za Zhi
|June 1, 1993
Abstract:
Echocardiographic findings of dehiscent suture from mitral plication annuloplasty have not been described. We herein describe transthoracic two-dimensional echocardiographic findings of an abnormal linear echo stretching across the mitral annulus in the left atrium in a 69-year-old male. This abnormal linear echo was confirmed to be a dehiscent plication suture at surgery.