RARE CASE OF ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS AND SUCCESSFUL SURGERY FOR MITRAL VALVE CYST TREATMENT

Intracardiac cysts are quite rare cardiac pathology in the adults. In this paper we describe a clinical observation for a mitral valve cyst in a male patient, 31 year. This patient had complaints on complicated swallowing, dizziness, nausea, episodes of consciousness loss and was indicated to have transthoracic echocardiography. During the echocardiographic research on a anterior leaf of the mitral valve we found a cavitary lesion with the size 27 x 38 mm which did not interfere with the blood supply in an output path of the left ventricle. The patient was successfully operated. Histologic research showed a true cyst of the mitral valve.