Calcific severe rheumatic mitral valve stenosis disguising as a “pseudoprosthesis”: An imaging vignette

Abstract

We present an interesting cardiac fluoroscopic image representing a severe rheumatic mitral restenosis with heavily calcific mitral valve leaflets having a striking resembling to the valve leaflets of bileaflet mechanical valve on cineangiography with respect to size, shape, motion, and position.

Keywords

• bileaflet mechanical prosthetic valve
• calcific mitral valve
• mitral stenosis