Trileaflet Mitral Valve Treated with the MitraClip® System
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Miguel Rodríguez-Santamarta1,2, Rodrigo Estévez-Loureiro1, Tomás Benito-González1, Javier Gualis1, Carmen Garrote1, Armando Pérez de Prado1, Felipe Fernández-Vázquez1 1Departamento de Cardiología, Complejo Asistencial Universitario de León, León, Spain2Electronic correspondence: mrsantamart@gmail.com |
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A 79-year-old woman with a history of ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy, severely depressed left ventricular ejection fraction and significant mitral regurgitation (MR) was admitted to the authors´ institution for percutaneous mitral valve repair. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) revealed the presence of a posterior mitral cleft at the P2 level, causing a trileaflet mitral valve that
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contributed significantly to the regurgitant jet. The procedure was performed under general anesthesia and guided by real-time three-dimensional TEE. Three MitraClip® devices (Abbott Vascular, Santa Clara, CA, USA) were implanted, which reduced the MR to grade 1+. The Journal of Heart Valve Disease 2017;26:589-591
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