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Delayed Left Atrial Wall Dissection After Mitral Valve Replacement
Author(s) -
IDIR MESSAOUD,
DEVTLLE CLAUDE,
ROUDAUT RAYMOND
Publication year - 2000
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.1540-8175.2000.tb01133.x
Subject(s) - medicine , mitral valve replacement , pseudoaneurysm , cardiology , dissection (medical) , mitral regurgitation , mitral valve , surgery , complication
We report two unusual cases of left atrial wall dissection creating a left atrial pseudoaneurysm associated with regurgitation a few months after mitral valve replacement. We emphasize the important role of transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis. The two patients successfully underwent surgery.