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Solitary trunk from the right ventricle with a cleft mitral valve simulating the trifoliate left valve of an atrioventricular septal defect with common atrioventricular junction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2005

Geoffrey P. Sharratt  and
Robert H. Anderson
Geoffrey P. Sharratt
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics and Cardiology, Isaac Walton Killam Health Centre, and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Robert H. Anderson
Affiliation:
Cardiac Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
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Abstract

We report a case of a true cleft in the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve. The cleft, however, is directed toward the ventricular septum, and the left ventricular papillary muscles have the same arrangement as seen in the setting of a common atrioventricular orifice. The atrioventricular septum is intact. This appearance reflects the presence, in this patient, of right ventricular origin of a solitary arterial trunk, so that there was no outflow tract within the left ventricle to interpose between the mitral valve and the septum.

Keywords

Tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresiasystemic-to-pulmonary collateral arteriesatrioventricular valves
Type
Brief Report
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 444 - 446
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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