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European Heart Journal Advance Access published September 11, 2016

Cardiovascular Flashlight 1

doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehw390
CARDIOVASCULAR FLASHLIGHT
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Incomplete Shone’s complex in the sixth decade of life: echo and cardiac
magnetic resonance imaging assessment
Natalia Lorenzo1, Eduard Claver2, Josefina Ali
o2, and Rio Aguilar3*
1
Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario Infanta Cristina, Avenida 9 de Junio 2, 28981 Parla, Madrid, Spain; 2Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario
de Bellvitge, Feixa Llarga s/n, 08907 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; and 3Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Diego Leon 62,
28006 Madrid, Spain
* Corresponding author. Tel: 134 915202272, Fax: 134 915202201, Email: rioaguilartorres@gmail.com

A 51-year-old woman was referred to the Cardiology outpatient clinic for a murmur. She was asympthomatic. Transthoracic echocardio-
gram showed a parachute mitral valve (Panels 1A–C and 2A), with anomalous and elongated chordae converging into a major papillary
muscle (posteromedial) with two heads (Panels 1B and 2B, see Supplementary material online, Videos S1–S3). Transmitral gradient was nor-
mal, and non-significant mitral regurgitation was detected. There was a rudimental anterolateral papillary muscle connected with anomalous
ventricular bands. The elongated subvalvular apparatus protruded into the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) generating dynamic LVOT

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obstruction (Panels 1B and 2A, see Supplementary material online, Videos S1 and S4). Fibrous subaortic membrane generated fixed LVOT
obstruction (peak instant gradient was 72 mmHg) (Panels 1D–E, see Supplementary material online, Video S1).
Cardiac magnetic resonance images supported the echo findings (Panel 2A–B). Magnetic resonance angiogram showed focal narrowing of the
aorta distal to the left subclavian artery, without significant compromise of the lumen (Panel 2C, see Supplementary material online, Video S5).

All these abnormalities were consistent with incomplete Shone’s complex.


Shone’s anomaly is a rare congenital entity, first described in 1963, consisting of left-sided obstructive lesions at multiple cardiovascular
levels. The classic developmental complex consists of parachute mitral valve, supravalvular ring of the left atrium, subaortic stenosis, and
aorta coarctation. Since this time, most of the literature comes from isolated reports, and even incomplete forms are still infrequent.
This congenital complex is mostly detected in childhood. The severity of mitral valve obstruction is the main predictor of prognosis. Our
case represents the oldest documented patient with a Shone’s anomaly. It illustrates that cases of mitral valve competence may be asympto-
matic through to late adulthood.
Shone’s complex must be diagnosed or suspected by echo; however, multimodality imaging allows better evaluation of intra and extra-
cardiac obstructive lesions.

Supplementary material is available at European Heart Journal online.

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