Isolated cleft mitral valve with severe regurgitation resulting in a left inferior pulmonary vein varix diagnosed from cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging

Pediatr Cardiol. 2013 Apr;34(4):1055-6. doi: 10.1007/s00246-012-0573-4. Epub 2012 Nov 10.

Abstract

Isolated cleft mitral valve (ICMV) is a rare entity not known to be related to pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect (PA-VSD). This report describes the use of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging to diagnose ICMV in a patient with repaired PA-VSD who presented with incidental severe mitral regurgitation (MR) on follow-up echocardiography. An associated pulmonary varix secondary to the severe MR also was shown by CMR.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional
  • Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / surgery
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine / methods*
  • Male
  • Mitral Valve / abnormalities*
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / diagnosis*
  • Pulmonary Atresia / surgery
  • Pulmonary Veins / abnormalities*
  • Varicose Veins / diagnosis*