title: A heart inside the heart: blood cyst of mitral valve.
abstract: We report a case of giant blood cyst originating from the anterior mitral valve leaflet, which was discovered during a two-dimensional echocardiography examination performed for investigation of a systolic murmur in a 34-year-old healthy man. Three-dimensional microbubble-enhanced images showed a heart-shape appearance that may be pathognomonic for blood cyst of the mitral valve.
authors.affiliation: División of Cardiology, Virgen del Rocio University Hospital Seville, Spain. fjlopezp@telefonica.net
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: López-Pardo
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: López-Haldón
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Granado-Sánchez
authors.forename: Maria Jose
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Puras
authors.forename: Angel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martínez-Martínez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003560:Cysts / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D006337:Heart Murmurs / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*