CASE REPORTS  CARDIAC SECTION 

The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 2002 April;43(2):199-202

Copyright © 2009 EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA

language: English

Supramitral ring: an unusual cause of congenital mitral stenosis. Case series and review

Mychaskiw G. II, Sachdev V. *, Braden D. A. **, Heath B. J. *

From the Department of Anesthesiology (Cardiac) *Department of Surgery (Cardiothoracic) **Department of Pediatrics (Cardiology) University of Mississippi School of Medicine Jackson, Mississippi, USA

Supramitral ­ring, ­also ­known as mem­bra­nous supra­val­vu­lar ­mitral sten­o­sis is a ­rare ­cause of con­gen­i­tal ­mitral sten­o­sis, ­with ­less ­than 100 cas­es appear­ing in ­the lit­er­a­ture ­since ­its ­first descrip­tion in 1902. We ­present a ­small ­series encoun­tered at ­the uni­ver­sity med­i­cal cen­ter dur­ing ­the ­last ­five ­years. The nat­u­ral his­to­ry of ­the con­di­tion is ­reviewed ­along ­with diag­nos­tic ­tools, ­aspects of sur­gi­cal ­repair, ­and anes­thet­ic tech­nique ­that facil­i­tates ear­ly extu­ba­tion ­and ­ICU dis­charge.