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Case Reports

Duplicate Mitral Valve in an Infant With Shone's Anomaly

Rza Turkoz, MD^a,_*, Canan Ayabakan, MD^b, Can Vuran, MD^a, Ouz Omay, MD^a, Selman Vefa Yildirim, MD^b, N. Kurad Tokel, MD^b

^a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Baskent University, stanbul Teaching and Medical Research Center, stanbul, Turkey
^b Department of Pediatrics, Baskent University, stanbul Teaching and Medical Research Center, stanbul, Turkey

Accepted for publication March 25, 2009.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Turkoz, Baskent Universitesi, stanbul Uygulama ve Aratirma, Hastanesi, Altunizade, stanbul, 01250, Turkey (Email: rturkoz{at}yahoo.com).

Duplication of mitral valve is a very rare anomaly. It is characterized by two independent mitral valve apparatuses (leaflets and annulus) and subvalvular apparatuses (chordae and papillary muscles) that function well by themselves. In this report, we present duplicate mitral valve with parachute chordal attachment and mitral stenosis in an infant. The patient was successfully treated with the reconstruction of the larger valve without any intervention to the smaller one.