Mitral Valve Leaflet Repair with Autologous Saphenous Vein in a Child with Infective Endocarditis.

• Tác giả: Barend Fourie, Pierre Goussard, Jacques T Janson, Jinyong Kim, Helena Rabie
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: United States : Pediatric cardiology , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 711860

Tóm tắt

Saphenous vein has been used successfully to repair the mitral valve in adults. We describe the use of a saphenous vein patch to repair a large defect in the anterior mitral valve leaflet in a child with infective endocarditis to avoid a mechanical mitral valve replacement.