When Mitral Valve Starts Smoking - A Clinical Image

Tony Ete1, Arun Kumar2, Rinchin Dorjee Megeji3, Tejvir Singh2, Habung
Mobing4, Narang Naku5, Vanlalmalsawmdawngliana2, Utpal Kumar2 and
Animesh Mishra6*

Acta Scientific Clinical Case Reports

Case Report Volume 1 Issue 9

Pancreatic Insulinoma - The Once in a Blue Moon Oncological Episode

Tony Ete¹, Arun Kumar², Rinchin Dorjee Megeji³, Tejvir Singh², Habung Mobing⁴, Narang Naku⁵, Vanlalmalsawmdawngliana², Utpal Kumar² and Animesh Mishra⁶*

¹Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiology, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, India
²Senior Resident Doctor, Department of Cardiology, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, India
³Assistant Professor, Tomo Riba Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Naharlagun, Arunachal Pradesh, India
⁴Senior Resident Doctor, Department of Medicine, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, India
⁵Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, India
⁶Professor and HOD, Department of Cardiology, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, India

*Corresponding Author: Animesh Mishra, Professor and HOD, Department of Cardiology, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, India.

Received: July 27, 2020; Published: August 24, 2020

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Abstract

Mitral Stenosis is characterised by thickening of mitral valves followed by decrease in the size of mitral orifice with subsequent stasis of blood in left atrium leading to spontaneous echo contrast (SEC).

Keywords: Mitral Stenosis; Blood Stasis; Spontaneous Echo Contrast

References

1. Manjunath CN., et al. “Balloon mitral valvuloplasty: our experience with a modified technique of crossing the mitral valve in difficult cases”. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions 44.1 (1998): 23-26.2. Salahuddin S., et al. ““Smoking” mitral valve”. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 60 (2012): 11.3. Mishra A., et al. “Mitral stenosis with smoking mitral valve”. The New Zealand Medical Journal 129.1445 (2016): 122-123.

Citation

Citation: Animesh Mishra., et al. “When Mitral Valve Starts Smoking - A Clinical Image". Acta Scientific Clinical Case Reports 1.9 (2020): 17-18.

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Copyright: © 2020 Animesh Mishra., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.