A quadricuspid aortic valve in an asymptomatic 40-year-old man: a case report

BACKGROUND: Integrated transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography enables identification and characterization of a quadricuspid aortic valve anomaly. CASE PRESENTATION: A totally asymptomatic 40-year-old white man was referred to our Division of Cardiology after accidental finding of a heart...

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Autores principales: Pasanisi, Giovanni, Mazzanti, Gaia, Sassone, Biagio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6094910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30111367
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-018-1755-3
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author Pasanisi, Giovanni
Mazzanti, Gaia
Sassone, Biagio
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Sassone, Biagio
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description BACKGROUND: Integrated transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography enables identification and characterization of a quadricuspid aortic valve anomaly. CASE PRESENTATION: A totally asymptomatic 40-year-old white man was referred to our Division of Cardiology after accidental finding of a heart murmur. Transesophageal echocardiography detected a quadricuspid aortic valve characterized by four cusps of equal size and severe aortic valvular regurgitation, without any further anomalies. He underwent a successful aortic valve repair. CONCLUSIONS: Quadricuspid aortic valve anomaly is a rare congenital cardiac defect that can cause progressive valvular complications.
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spelling pubmed-60949102018-08-24 A quadricuspid aortic valve in an asymptomatic 40-year-old man: a case report Pasanisi, Giovanni Mazzanti, Gaia Sassone, Biagio J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Integrated transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography enables identification and characterization of a quadricuspid aortic valve anomaly. CASE PRESENTATION: A totally asymptomatic 40-year-old white man was referred to our Division of Cardiology after accidental finding of a heart murmur. Transesophageal echocardiography detected a quadricuspid aortic valve characterized by four cusps of equal size and severe aortic valvular regurgitation, without any further anomalies. He underwent a successful aortic valve repair. CONCLUSIONS: Quadricuspid aortic valve anomaly is a rare congenital cardiac defect that can cause progressive valvular complications. BioMed Central 2018-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6094910/ /pubmed/30111367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-018-1755-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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A quadricuspid aortic valve in an asymptomatic 40-year-old man: a case report
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title_fullStr A quadricuspid aortic valve in an asymptomatic 40-year-old man: a case report
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title_short A quadricuspid aortic valve in an asymptomatic 40-year-old man: a case report
title_sort quadricuspid aortic valve in an asymptomatic 40-year-old man: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6094910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30111367
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-018-1755-3
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