[Mitral valvuloplasty for endomyocardial fibrosis in a child with acute leukemia and hypereosinophilia]

Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss. 1991 Dec;84(12):1861-4.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The authors report the case of a child with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and hypereosinophilia complicated by left sided endomyocardial fibrosis. Despite the need for urgent treatment and severe mitral valve disease, a complex mitral valvuloplasty was performed, consisting of mobilisation and reconstruction of the posterior leaflet, burying the chordae with plicature of the papillary muscle of the anterior leaflet associated with an annuloplasty. Decortication was performed by a transvalvular approach. The technique of mobilisation-reconstruction of the posterior mitral leaflet with a pericardial patch should widen the indication of conservative surgery in this condition, in the presence of dominant mitral regurgitation in the child.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Chordae Tendineae / surgery
  • Endomyocardial Fibrosis / complications*
  • Endomyocardial Fibrosis / surgery
  • Eosinophilia / complications*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / etiology*
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / surgery
  • Pericardium / transplantation
  • Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / complications*