[Calcification of mitral anulus and mitral valve prolapse. Description of a case with severe mitral valve insufficiency].

We report the case of a women, 40 years old, suffering from a severe mitral insufficiency caused by the simultaneous presence of three anatomical anomalies: mitral valve prolapse, mitral anulus dilation and calcification. Such degrees of calcification are generally found in older people and in association with a similar degeneration of all the fibrous skeleton of the heart. Whereas the association of mitral valve prolapse with mitral anulus dilation has been clearly remarked, a few cases (16 as a whole in our knowledge) with scanty details documented the possibility of an associated mitral anulus calcification.