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VIDEO 352-2A: Transthoracic echocardiographic images are from a 5-year-old boy with chronic rheumatic heart disease with severe mitral valve regurgitation and moderate mitral valve stenosis
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Video
Author
Loscalzo, Joseph, author; Carapetis, Jonathan R., author
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Subject
Language
English
Abstract
Images demonstrate the typical echocardiographic findings in advanced chronic rheumatic heart disease. Both the anterior and posterior mitral valve leaflets are markedly thickened. During diastole, the motion of the anterior mitral valve leaflet tip is restricted with doming of the body of the leaflet toward the interventricular septum. This appearance is commonly described as a hockey stick or an elbow deformity. A. Chronic rheumatic heart disease (parasternal long-axis view).