Closing the door in front of a torrential mitral regurgitation

Mohamad Jihad Mansour; Alexandre Natalis; Jean-Bernard Masson; Jeannot Potvin; Giovanni Romanelli

doi:10.1111/echo.15454

Closing the door in front of a torrential mitral regurgitation

Echocardiography. 2022 Oct;39(10):1376-1378. doi: 10.1111/echo.15454. Epub 2022 Sep 20.

Authors

Mohamad Jihad Mansour^{1

2}, Alexandre Natalis^{1

2}, Jean-Bernard Masson^{1

2}, Jeannot Potvin^{1

2}, Giovanni Romanelli^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada.
² Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada.

PMID: 36126333
DOI: 10.1111/echo.15454

Abstract

Background: Treatment of symptomatic severe mitral regurgitation (MR) is challenging in patients who are not candidates for surgical intervention.

Case description: We report the case of a 64-year-old female with multiple comorbidities who was found to have severe MR due to a large mitral valve non coaptation.

Conclusions: In this case report, we show the potential of transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair using MitraClip for the treatment of torrential MR due to a large mitral valve non-coaptation in a patient with no prior history of coronary artery disease and in whom surgical intervention was not an option.

Keywords: MitraClip; echocardiography; torrential mitral regurgitation; transcatheter edge-to-edge repair.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Cardiac Catheterization
Cardiac Surgical Procedures* / adverse effects
Female
Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation* / adverse effects
Humans
Middle Aged
Mitral Valve / diagnostic imaging
Mitral Valve / surgery
Mitral Valve Insufficiency* / diagnostic imaging
Mitral Valve Insufficiency* / etiology
Mitral Valve Insufficiency* / surgery
Treatment Outcome