title: Congenital double-orifice mitral valve. A case report.
abstract: A three-year-old girl was admitted to Hacettepe Children's Hospital due to sweating and poor feeding. Echocardiography demonstrated ostium primum atrial septal defect with a cleft mitral valve. After two months of medical follow-up with digitalis, she was subjected to open-heart surgery, and a primum-type atrial septal defect with double mitral orifice was found. To avoid creating acute mitral stenosis, the cleft was only partially sutured and the septal defect was closed with a patch. Her postoperative recovery was uneventful. It is emphasized that surgical intervention should be individualized in each case.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yurdakul
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arsan
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Karapinar
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tamim
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bilgiç
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000002:abnormalities*