Quadruple valve commissurotomy.
A 12-year-old girl in congestive heart failure was diagnosed to be suffering from severe polyvalvular disease due to a combination of congenital and rheumatic lesions. Cardiac catheterization demonstrated stenotic lesions of all the heart valves. The child underwent quadruple valve commissurotomy and is symptom free and thriving 2 years later.
D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D012214:Rheumatic Heart Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*