Triple-cavity left ventricle with an abnormal mitral valve apparatus.
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.
Amirghofran
Ahmad Ali
AA
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Peiravian
Farah
F
Karimi
Ashkan
A
Aghasadeghi
Kamran
K
Amoozgar
Hamid
H
Cheriki
Siroos
S
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