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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Ameta D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5067464 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Indian heart journal 20160114
Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is a common congenital cardiac anomaly, and rarely, it is associated with sinus of Valsalva aneurysms (SOVAs). And very infrequently, these SOVAs rupture into left side of heart. We hereby report a case of 12-year-old male with BAV with severe aortic stenosis with a large SOVA that ruptured into the left side of the heart. The anatomy was delineated with multimodality imaging; initially with two-dimensional trans-thoracic echocardiography (TTE), and later on with thre ...[more]