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Mitral valve repair after excision of a fibrolipoma
J M Caralps1, V Martí, P Ferrés
1Department of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Clínica Quirón, Barcelona, Spain.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|January 6, 1999
Abstract:
A 2-year-old patient with severe mitral regurgitation associated with a mass originating from the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve is reported. Excision of the tumor and mitral valve repair was performed. Four years later the child remains asymptomatic with no recurrence of the tumor or regurgitation.