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Acute Mitral Regurgitation Presenting With Right Upper Lobe Opacification, John Wallis, Md, Mark Decaro, Md
Acute Mitral Regurgitation Presenting With Right Upper Lobe Opacification, John Wallis, Md, Mark Decaro, Md
The Medicine Forum
We describe a rare entity in which acute mitral regurgitation causes asymmetric findings on chest radiograph. The patient presented with rapid-onset respiratory failure from flash pulmonary edema. She had unilateral infiltrates on chest radiograph, which evoked infectious etiology. However, we identified a flail mitral valve leaflet, for which the patient received an emergent mitral valve replacement. Fortunately, she made a full recovery. We discuss the mechanism of the asymmetric chest radiograph findings, which we were able to confirm using a transesophageal echocardiogram.