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Volume 137, Issue 3 , Pages 538-542 , March 2009

Congenital supravalvar mitral ring: An underestimated anomaly

Alessandra Toscano, MD, PhD
- Department of Cardiology, Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, Rome, Italy
Luciano Pasquini, MD, FESC
- Department of Cardiology, Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, Rome, Italy
- Address for reprints: Luciano Pasquini, MD, FESC, Department of Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Bambino Gesù Hospital, Piazza S. Onofrio 4 00165, Rome, Italy.
Roberta Iacobelli, MD
- Department of Cardiology, Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, Rome, Italy
Roberto M. Di Donato, MD
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, Rome, Italy
- American Association for Thoracic Surgery member.
Francesca Raimondi, MD
- Department of Cardiology, Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, Rome, Italy
Adriano Carotti, MD
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, Rome, Italy
Vincenzo Di Ciommo, MD
- UO Epidemiology, Bambino Gesù Hospital, Rome, Italy
Stephen P. Sanders, MD, FACC
- Department of Cardiology, Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, Rome, Italy

Received 14 February 2008 ,Revised 2 July 2008 ,Accepted 11 August 2008.

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Videoclip 1	Left Panel: Echocardiographic view of “supramitral” ring from parasternal long axis view. Right Panel: Supramitral stenosis showing the flow disturbance above the annulus of mitral valve.	9 MB
Videoclip 2a	Echocardiographic view of “intramitral” ring from apical 4-chamber approach: circumferential ridge adherent to the mitral valve leaflets.	50 MB
Videoclip 2b	“Intramitral” stenosis showing the flow disturbance in diastole underneath the mitral annulus.	6 MB