Case 1. A 17-year-old boy was admitted to Walter Reed General Hospital for repair of an ostium-primum defect of the interatrial septum with an associated cleft mitral valve and mitral insufficiency.

Our multidisciplinary cardiovascular team collaborates on mitral valve repair, transcatheter technologies, mitral valve replacement, and follow-up treatment so patients can get all their care for ...

Cardiac anatomy, clinical diagnosis and molecular details of AVCD patients with mutations are summarized in Table 1. Partial AVCD was diagnosed in six patients, complete AVCD and cleft mitral valve in ...

Ostium-Primum Atrial Defect with Cleft Mitral Valve The 8 patients with this lesion ranged in age from thirty-three to fifty-four, with an average of thirty-nine years. Five were women, and 3 were men ...

Metamora senior center Owen Cabell was diagnosed with a hole in his heart and a cleft mitral valve as a child. He underwent successful heart surgery at age 11 and was cleared to play football just ...

Mitral valve prolapse is a common cause of a heart murmur caused by a "leaky" heart valve. Most cases of mitral valve prolapse are not serious and only need to be monitored. Mitral valve prolapse is ...

Mitral valve repair can be done in two ways. “Balloon Valvuloplasty” is a cardiac catheterization procedure mostly performed for patients with Mitral Stenosis. An interventional cardiologist does this ...

Your mitral valve is one of the four major valves in your heart. It helps blood flow through your heart and out to the rest of your body. When this valve isn’t working correctly, it puts stress on ...

Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is a minor heart condition that occurs when the mitral heart valve, which separates your left atrium and left ventricle, doesn’t close as tightly as it should. This can ...