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Clinicoradiological Correlation Atik et al Important Mitral Valve Regurgitation Arq Bras Cardiol. 2018; 111(1):109-111 1. Séguéla PE, Houyel L, Acar P. Congenital malformations of the mitral valve. Arch Cardiovasc Dis. 2011;104(8-9):465-79. 2. Rajesh GN, Sajeer K, Nair A, Sajeev CG, Krishnan MN. Hammock mitral valve: a rare cause of congenital mitral regurgitation: a case report and review. Indian Heart J. 2014;66(3):370-1. 3. Ito T, TokoroM, Yanagisawa J. Mitral valve plasty for a hammockmitral valve in an adult patient. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2015;21(3):393-5. 4. Delmo Walter EM, Javier M, Hetzer R. Repair of parachute and hammock valve in infants and children: early and late outcomes. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2016;28(2):448-59. References This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License However, even with these anatomical alterations, the valve may show a relatively normal function for many years, as shown by some recent findings. 1 Most reported cases are in the pediatric age group, and there are only a few reports of hammock mitral valve anomaly in adults. In cases of hammock mitral valve, the repair can be performed through annuloplasty, commissurotomy, modified techniques of posterior annulus shortening and papillary muscle division, according to the presentation of the valve apparatus morphology. 2-4 111