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Echocardiography
; 17(8): 731-2, 2000 Nov.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11153020
RESUMO
We describe an unusual case of gross dehiscence of a Carpentier mitral ring, not due to bacterial endocarditis, causing severe mitral valve insufficiency and cardiac failure. Diagnosis was made by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). Mitral valve replacement was then performed.