Possibilities of Echocardiography at the Stages of Surgical Treatment of the Patient with the Mitral Valve Posterior Leaflet Prolapse Resulted in Mitral Insufficiency and Atrial Fibrillation (A Case Report)

The mitral valve prolapse is characterized by the degeneration of the valve leaflets, accompanied by their thickening, increasing surface area and flexibility. The mitral valves leaflets bulge (prolapse) beyond the plane of the atrioventricular ring into the left atrium during ventricular systole and lose the ability to close tightly, leading to the mitral regurgitation. Acute chord rupture of the mitral valve posterior leaflet is a rare but important cause of severe mitral regurgitation and the development of acute or progressive chronic heart failure. Acute mitral insufficiency, accompanied by hemodynamic disorders, requires an urgent valve plastic surgery or valve prosthetics. The mitral valve plastic surgery gives a number of undeniable advantages over prosthetics, providing the best hemodynamic parameters, saving the patient from lifelong receiving of anticoagulant drugs. Detailed qualified echocardiographic evaluation of all structures of the mitral valve (fibrous ring, MV leaflets by segments, overlapping structures, structure of the chordal apparatus, papillary muscles) provides the necessary information for the mitral valve reconstructive plastic surgery with the choice of the method that is most optimal for a certain patient at the preoperative stage. We report herein a clinical observation of the patient with a diagnosis: acquired heart disease, the mitral valve posterior leaflet prolapse with mitral insufficiency Grade 3. Chronic heart failure IIA. II FC. Atrial fibrillation. The patient underwent multicomponent mitral valve reconstruction with the creation of a neochord and the fibrous ring plastic on the duplicate of a PTFE strip (soft support ring), pairwise isolation of the pulmonary vein entrance and right cavotricuspid isthmus.

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