Obstruction of left ventricular outflow tract by a calcified mass at mitral valve

Abstract

A case of an unusual left ventricular outflow tract obstruction by mitral valve pathology in a 35-year old female with diabetes and end-stage renal disease is presented in the study. The patient sufferedfrom fever of an unknown origin after lower-leg amputation. Although the wound healed well, fever persisted for three weeks despite a triple antibiotic treatment until the infection was resolved with vancomycin.Three months later echocardiography displayed a floating mass attached to mitral valve, producing a newly developed systolicmurmur and a mild haemodynamic obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract. The calcified vegetation was probably formed during an unrecognized subacute infective endocarditis.

Keywords

• left ventricular outflow tract obstruction
• mitral valve
• infective endocarditis
• echocardiography
• haemodialysis