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Figure 2 (A) Subcostal echocardiographic view in a patient with cleft mitral valve and no chordal attachment to the ventricular septum. (B) Intraoperative view of the cleft (*). Note the thickness of the cleft edges with retraction of both parts of the anterior leaflet (arrows). LV = left ventricle.
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