Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (Jan 2020)

Kissing Lesion of Mitral Valve - A Case Report

  • Javid Raja,
  • Rupesh Kumar,
  • Krishna Prasad Gourav

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21470/1678-9741-2019-0168
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 36, no. 1
pp. 130 – 132

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Abstract Aortic valve endocarditis can lead to secondary involvement of aorto-mitral curtain and the adjacent anterior mitral leaflet (AML). The secondary damage to AML is often caused by the infected jet of aortic regurgitation hitting the ventricular surface of the mitral leaflet, or by the pronounced bacterial vegetation that prolapses from the aortic valve into the left ventricular outflow tract. This is called ‘kissing lesion’. We describe a patient with infective endocarditis of the aortic valve causing perforation of both noncoronary cusp of aortic valve and the AML, which is rare.

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