TY - JOUR T1 - Echocardiography of a woman after valve intervention JF - Heart JO - Heart SP - 1497 LP - 1497 DO - 10.1136/heartjnl-2014-305507 VL - 100 IS - 19 AU - Anderson Ferreira Leite AU - Paulo Henrique Nogueira Costa AU - Luisa Freire Pederneiras Barbosa AU - Timothy C Tan AU - Claudio Leo Gelape AU - Maria Carmo Pereira Nunes Y1 - 2014/10/01 UR - http://heart.bmj.com/content/100/19/1497.abstract N2 - A 48-year-old woman presented with progressively worsening exertional dyspnoea. Physical examination revealed an accentuated first heart sound, opening snap and holodiastolic mitral murmur. A transthoracic echocardiogram showed severe rheumatic mitral stenosis (valve area: 0.7 cm2; mean pressure gradient: 23 mm Hg; pulmonary artery systolic pressure: 60 mm Hg), mild-to-moderate mitral regurgitation (MR), with a Wilkins score of 7 and valvular anatomy favourable for percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty (PMV). After three successive balloon dilations, the valve area increased to 1.2 cm2, transmitral gradient decreased to 5 mm Hg and mean pulmonary artery pressure to 33 mm Hg. The patient remained stable after the procedure, asymptomatic during hospitalisation, and routine 2D and 3D echocardiography images were obtained before discharge from hospital (figure 1 and online supplementary videos 1 and 2). Figure 1 Two-dimensional (2D) TTE and 2D TEE echocardiographic image of … ER -