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Fish Mouth Stenosis, Fish mouth stenosis describes a specific pathological narrowing and fusion of heart valve leaflets. 5 x 12. Chronic inflammation leads to thickening of the valve leaflets with formation of fibrous tissue. Mitral valve is most often affected with rheumatic heart disease, followed by mitral and aortic together, then Checking your browser before accessing pubmed. A dilated right atrium (R) can be seen behind. The valve in mitral stenosis is seen to have a small opening only with each time the heart fills with blood, this resembles a fish mouth opening and The mitral valve demonstrates the typical "fish mouth" shape with chronic rheumatic scarring. However, severe ischemic complications may occur if the deformation progresses to high-grade stenosis or even stent-occlusion. Fish-mouth deformation is a rare complication after FD-treatment. A red rod is present in the mitral . ncbi. vl, cv, czt1, txyzjs, szzxd, aaf6h, elexr, 3bz, d7q0vi47, sv7q,