The Quandary of the Quadricuspid Aortic Valve—The “Unlucky” 4-Leaf Clover: Case Report and Brief Clinical Review

The quadricuspid aortic valve is an exceedingly rare congenital valvular anomaly, characterized by a tetrad of leaflets that typically presents with aortic regurgitation. Almost one third of cases are associated with coexisting cardiac defects with one fifth warranting surgical intervention. In this...

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Autores principales: Seecheran, Rajeev Virender, Seecheran, Valmiki Krishna, Persad, Sangeeta Anjali, Rampersad, Fidel, Maharaj, Paramanand, Khan, Shari, Seecheran, Naveen Anand
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7370807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32389028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709620921626
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author Seecheran, Rajeev Virender
Seecheran, Valmiki Krishna
Persad, Sangeeta Anjali
Rampersad, Fidel
Maharaj, Paramanand
Khan, Shari
Seecheran, Naveen Anand
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Seecheran, Valmiki Krishna
Persad, Sangeeta Anjali
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description The quadricuspid aortic valve is an exceedingly rare congenital valvular anomaly, characterized by a tetrad of leaflets that typically presents with aortic regurgitation. Almost one third of cases are associated with coexisting cardiac defects with one fifth warranting surgical intervention. In this article, we describe the first documented-in-Caribbean case and present a brief clinical review of its pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management.
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spelling pubmed-73708072020-07-29 The Quandary of the Quadricuspid Aortic Valve—The “Unlucky” 4-Leaf Clover: Case Report and Brief Clinical Review Seecheran, Rajeev Virender Seecheran, Valmiki Krishna Persad, Sangeeta Anjali Rampersad, Fidel Maharaj, Paramanand Khan, Shari Seecheran, Naveen Anand J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report The quadricuspid aortic valve is an exceedingly rare congenital valvular anomaly, characterized by a tetrad of leaflets that typically presents with aortic regurgitation. Almost one third of cases are associated with coexisting cardiac defects with one fifth warranting surgical intervention. In this article, we describe the first documented-in-Caribbean case and present a brief clinical review of its pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management. SAGE Publications 2020-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7370807/ /pubmed/32389028 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709620921626 Text en © 2020 American Federation for Medical Research https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Seecheran, Rajeev Virender
Seecheran, Valmiki Krishna
Persad, Sangeeta Anjali
Rampersad, Fidel
Maharaj, Paramanand
Khan, Shari
Seecheran, Naveen Anand
The Quandary of the Quadricuspid Aortic Valve—The “Unlucky” 4-Leaf Clover: Case Report and Brief Clinical Review
title The Quandary of the Quadricuspid Aortic Valve—The “Unlucky” 4-Leaf Clover: Case Report and Brief Clinical Review
title_full The Quandary of the Quadricuspid Aortic Valve—The “Unlucky” 4-Leaf Clover: Case Report and Brief Clinical Review
title_fullStr The Quandary of the Quadricuspid Aortic Valve—The “Unlucky” 4-Leaf Clover: Case Report and Brief Clinical Review
title_full_unstemmed The Quandary of the Quadricuspid Aortic Valve—The “Unlucky” 4-Leaf Clover: Case Report and Brief Clinical Review
title_short The Quandary of the Quadricuspid Aortic Valve—The “Unlucky” 4-Leaf Clover: Case Report and Brief Clinical Review
title_sort quandary of the quadricuspid aortic valve—the “unlucky” 4-leaf clover: case report and brief clinical review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7370807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32389028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709620921626
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