Echo Summer Challenge 1 - Which procedure was performed in this patient?

Are you ready for some important teaching points? Can you solve the following „echo mystery“?

Here is a four chamber view of a patient that underwent a procedure.

Here’s a tip: focus on the awkward looking mitral valve.

Which procedure was performed in this patient?

A) Ballon valvuloplasty

B) Unsuccessful transcatheter edge to edge repair

C) Surgical chord replacement + Annuloplasty

D) Cardioband procedure

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Thomas Binder and the 123sonography team