Mitral valve aneurysm after infective endocarditis in the billowing mitral leaflet syndrome.
Mitral valve aneurysm is an uncommon complication of infective endocarditis. This report describes a patient with severe regurgitation due to perforations in a mitral aneurysm who required mitral valve replacement 9 years after a staphylococcal infection was superimposed on a billowing mitral leaflet. The unusual auscultatory signs and angiographic appearance could have led to diagnosis of the aneurysm.
D000328:Adult; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000150:complications*; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000601:surgery; D010701:Phonocardiography; D013577:Syndrome