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• The diameter of the isthmus was found to be smaller, and the size of mitral valve annulus larger, than previously published values.

• A tiny imperforate mitral valve and a rudimentary left ventricle were found.

• Two years after surgery the child is clinically well, with no signs of pulmonary hypertension and with normal flow through the mitral valve.

• It is generally acknowledged that the inflammatory process involves most frequently the mitral valve.

• Congenital mitral valve disease associated with coarctation of the aorta.

• The principal problem associated with repair of the mitral valve in children is long-term durability.

• Echocardiography showed poor systolic function of her systemic (morphologically right) ventricle, and identified new severe regurgitation of her right-sided mitral valve.

• The attachment extended to the left coronary leaflet of the aortic valve, and to the ventricular surface of the aortic leaflet of the mitral valve.

• There does not appear to be any residual ventricular septal defect but the mitral valve is "masked" by the patch material.

• There was no systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve, but mild prolapse of an aortic leaflet was seen.

• The ventricular septal defect was directly related to the mitral valve.

• Instead, they represented gross calcification of the mitral valve, and of the papillary muscles, as a consequence of viral myocarditis.

• Increasingly, we are debulking the coronary sinus which we feel may be partially obstructive to the mitral valve.

• Since 1991, mitral valve allografts have been used in our institution to replace the mitral valve.

• Other abnormalities were: patent ductus arteriosus, septal hypertrophy, mitral valve prolapse and pericardial effusion (one case each).