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Diagnosis of Accessory Mitral Valve Tissue by Transesophageal Echocardiography
Author(s) -
WILLENS HOWARD J.,
LEVY RALPH,
PEREZ ANGEL
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1994.tb01044.x
Subject(s) - medicine , intracardiac injection , mitral valve , cardiology , ventricular outflow tract , doppler echocardiography , esophagus , radiology , stenosis , diastole , blood pressure
Accessory mitral valve tissue is a rare cause of intracardiac mass and subvalvular left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. The preoperative diagnosis of this congenital anomaly has been facilitated by transthoracic two‐dimensional and Doppler echocardiography. However, transthoracic two‐dimensional echocardiography cannot identify or correctly diagnose all cases of accessory mitral valve tissue. We report a patient in whom an intracardiac mass detected by transthoracic echocardiography was definitively diagnosed as accessory mitral valve tissue by transesophageal echocardiography. accessory mitral valve tissue, subaortic stenosis, transesophageal echocardiography, intracardiac mass