Surgical repair of mitral valve regurgitation with anomalous unilateral single pulmonary vein.

ABSTRACT: We report a case of surgically repaired symptomatic mitral valve regurgitation (MR) in a 61-year-old woman with anomalous unilateral single pulmonary vein. A two-staged surgery was scheduled; first a catheter embolization of anomalous vessel to avoid recirculation of the blood into the left atrium during cardiopulmonary bypass, and second a mitral valve repair via right lateral thoracotomy.

Learning objective

Scimitar sign is a horn-like shape on plain chest radiograph. One of the possible diagnoses is partial anomalous pulmonary venous return (APVR), which often requires surgical interventions due to comorbidities of congenital heart disease and recurrent pneumonia [1-3]. Another is anomalous unilateral single pulmonary vein (AUSPV), which is generally asymptomatic, and therefore,

SUBMITTER: Hayashi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10240418 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature