title: Presentation, natural history, and outcome in children and adolescents with double orifice mitral valve.
abstract: Forty-six children, aged 2 days to 16 years (median 2.4 years) with double orifice mitral valve (DOMV), were studied. Partial atrioventricular septal defect was the most commonly associated cardiac lesion. Symptoms were related to the degree of mitral insufficiency and/or stenosis when present. Surgical intervention directed at DOMV was required in the minority of patients who underwent repair of associated cardiac lesions. The long-term morbidity attributable to DOMV was low.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel. eliz@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
authors.forename: Eli
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zalzstein
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hamilton
authors.forename: Nili
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zucker
authors.forename: Aviva
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Levitas
authors.forename: Gil J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery; D006343:Heart Septal Defects / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000002:abnormalities*; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000209:etiology