title: A case of adult patient ductus arteriosus with congestive heart failure and severe mitral regurgitation.
abstract: A 46-year-old woman presented herself at the hospital with progressive effort dyspnea and lower limbs edema which she had had for 3 months. She had a history of surgical ligation of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) at the age of 25-year-old. A transthoracic cardiac ultrasonography showed left ventricular dilatation, severe functional mitral regurgitation, and a recurrent shunt of PDA. Percutaneous coil closure of PDA was performed and 6 months after the procedure, resolution of functional mitral regurgitation and normalization of left atrial and ventricular sizes were achieved.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Tsuchiya General Hospital, 3-30 Nakashimacho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, 730-8655, Japan.
authors.forename: Noriaki
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authors.lastname: Watanabe
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authors.lastname: Toyofuku
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authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Nobuo
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authors.lastname: Shiode
authors.forename: Yoshiko
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authors.lastname: Masaoka
authors.forename: Yuji
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authors.lastname: Muraoka
authors.forename: Tomokazu
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authors.lastname: Okimoto
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authors.lastname: Otsuka
authors.forename: Hiromichi
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authors.lastname: Tamekiyo
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authors.lastname: Mito
authors.forename: Tomoharu
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authors.lastname: Kawase
authors.forename: Yuzo
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authors.lastname: Kagawa
authors.forename: Atsuhiro
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authors.lastname: Senoo
authors.forename: Yasuhiko
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authors.lastname: Hayashi