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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 23.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Cardiol. 2015 Oct 20;12(12):689–710. doi: 10.1038/nrcardio.2015.161

Figure 10.

Figure 10

Mitral valve enlargement in SAM. a | SAM relates to a combination of a susceptible mitral valve, which is anteriorly positioned and elongated, encountering a posteriorly shifted left ventricular outflow stream, diverted by hypertrophy of the upper IVS. Anterior PM displacement decreases the posterior restraining force on the leaflets. Leaflet elongation allows greater leaflet excursion to create obstructive SAM. b | SAM of elongated leaflets (arrows) approaching the IVS and obstructing left ventricular outflow. Abbreviations: AML, anterior mitral leaflet; Ao, aorta; IVS, interventricular septum; LA, left atrium; LV, left ventricle; PM, papillary muscle; PML, posterior mitral leaflet; SAM, systolic anterior motion.