A Case of Ruptured Mitral Valve Aneurysm Complicating Long-Standing Aortic Regurgitation

Norihiko Matsumura; Shinichi Fujimoto; Hiroshi Nakano; Reiko Mizuno; Kensuke Negoro; Yuta Yamamoto; Matahiro Yabuta; Hidero Nonaka; Kazuhiro Dohi

doi:10.1111/j.1540-8175.1998.tb00624.x

A Case of Ruptured Mitral Valve Aneurysm Complicating Long-Standing Aortic Regurgitation

Echocardiography. 1998 May;15(4):401-404. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1998.tb00624.x.

Authors

Norihiko Matsumura¹, Shinichi Fujimoto, Hiroshi Nakano, Reiko Mizuno, Kensuke Negoro, Yuta Yamamoto, Matahiro Yabuta, Hidero Nonaka, Kazuhiro Dohi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Clinico-Laboratory Diagnostics, Nara Medical University, 840 Shijocho, Kashihara, Nara 634, Japan.

PMID: 11175056
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1998.tb00624.x

Abstract

A 53-year-old man with aortic regurgitation was admitted to our hospital because of fever. A diagnosis of ruptured mitral valve aneurysm was made by Doppler echocardiography. Aortic regurgitant flow along the anterior mitral leaflet may have predisposed to mitral valve endocarditis, aneurysm formation, and its rupture.