title: [Double mitral valve orifice. Apropos of a case discovered by echocardiography].
abstract: The authors report a case of isolated double orifice mitral valve in a 20-year old pregnant woman. This exceptional and seldom isolated anomaly is usually discovered at autopsy or surgery. In this particular case it was diagnosed by pulsed doppler ultrasound combined with echocardiography. Data from the literature are reviewed on that occasion, and the echocardiographic images of the malformation are described. Despite its rarity, double orifice mitral valve deserves to be known and its presence should be looked for by echocardiography, notably in patients with complete or partial atrioventricular canal.
authors.affiliation: Service de cardiologie, CHU Timone, Marseille.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Habib
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Benichou
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Bonnet
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tafani
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Villain
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Bouvier
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bory
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Serradimigni
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000002:abnormalities*
vernacular_title: Orifice mitral double. A propos d'un cas de découverte échocardiographique.