Resolution of severe secondary mitral valve regurgitation following aortic valve replacement in infective endocarditis.
Jan Oliver FriessThomas BruelisauerSamuel HurniMiralem PasicGabor ErdoesBalthasar EberlePublished in: SAGE open medical case reports (2021)
We present the case of a patient with infective endocarditis anesthetized for replacement of severely regurgitant aortic valve. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography revealed a new diagnosis of severe secondary mitral regurgitation. After aortic valve replacement and tricuspid valve repair, severe mitral regurgitation resolved rapidly without any intervention. In multivalvular disease, instant spontaneous resolution of secondary mitral regurgitation is possible after surgical correction of an aortic regurgitation causing left ventricular volume overload.
Keyphrases
- aortic valve
- aortic valve replacement
- aortic stenosis
- transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- left ventricular
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- mitral valve
- early onset
- randomized controlled trial
- ejection fraction
- single molecule
- computed tomography
- left atrial
- heart failure
- patients undergoing
- acute myocardial infarction
- pulmonary hypertension
- atrial fibrillation
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- left atrial appendage