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8662041

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-2-7
pubmed:abstractText
A case of mitral stenosis following mitral valve replacement in a patient with endocardial fibroelastosis is reported. A 14-year-old boy presented with cardiac failure. He had been diagnosed as having endocardial fibroelastosis at the age of 7 months and had undergone resection of endocardial fibrous tissue in the left ventricle at that time. Five years later his mitral valve was resected owing to mitral stenosis, with Bjork-Shiley valve replacement. Cross-sectional echocardiography on this admission showed restrictive left ventricular inflow due to a thickened immobile prosthetic valve with severely dyskinetic left ventricle (ejection fraction 8%). The electrocardiogram showed atrioventricular reentry tachycardia. Despite direct current cardioversion and continual amiodarone infusion he suffered a cardiac arrest and died 12 days after admission. Postmortem examination showed left ventricular endocardial fibroelastosis with severe inflow obstruction due to the formation of a complete fibrous ring of pannus/fibrosis around the prosthetic margin on the ventricular aspect of the left ventricle. This complication has not previously been described in children after mitral valve replacement.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0172-0643
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
257-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-2-20
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Left ventricular pannus causing inflow obstruction late after mitral valve replacement for endocardial fibroelastosis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital, London, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports