title: Triple-cavity left ventricle with an abnormal mitral valve apparatus.
abstract: The patient is a 17-year-old boy who was referred to our center with complaints of easy fatigability and exertional dyspnea. In echocardiography, the left ventricle was identified to be composed of a small functional cavity, and 2 sequestrated apical cavities that communicated with the functional cavity only through few stenotic orifices. The mitral valve apparatus was also abnormal: there was no definite papillary muscle, and chordae tendineae arose from the aberrant fibromuscular ridge that partitioned the left ventricular cavity. Imaging findings and management of this patient with a triple-cavity left ventricle are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors.forename: Ahmad Ali
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Amirghofran
authors.forename: Farah
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Peiravian
authors.forename: Ashkan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karimi
authors.forename: Kamran
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Aghasadeghi
authors.forename: Hamid
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Amoozgar
authors.forename: Siroos
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cheriki
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000601:surgery; D000293:Adolescent; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery