A successful surgical treatment of mitral stenosis of double mitral valve combined with aortic regurgitation
Takemura, H.; Ohhira, M.; Sawa, S.; Tanaka, N.; Iwa, T.
Nihon Kyobu Geka Gakkai 37(6): 1211-1216
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0369-4739 PMID: 2809297 Document Number: 341595
The purpose of this paper was to present a successful double mitral commissurotomy concomitant with aortic valve replacement for 45-year-old female who was found to have rheumatic fever in her history. Double mitral valve was incidentally diagnosed by means of preoperative echocardiography. Both orifice areas were almost same and measured as 0.70 and 0.71 cm2 in size. Double mitral commissurotomy was successful to obtain optimal areas of mitral valve at surgery and aortic valve replacement was carried out with #23 Björk Shiley prosthesis. Her postoperative course was uneventful and followed up one year after operation at present. This is the first case in the literature of successful surgical treatment of double mitral commissurotomy combined with aortic valve replacement.