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A patient with aneurysms of both aortic coronary sinuses of Valsalva obstructing both ventricular outflow tracts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2009

Ishwarappa B. Vijayalakshmi ,
Nijagal S. Devananda  and
Narasimhan Chitra
Ishwarappa B. Vijayalakshmi*
Affiliation:
Children’s Heart Care Centre, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Nijagal S. Devananda
Affiliation:
Children’s Heart Care Centre, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Narasimhan Chitra
Affiliation:
Children’s Heart Care Centre, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
*
Correspondence to: Dr Ishwarappa Balekundri Vijayalakshmi, MD, DM (Card), FICC, FIAMS, FIAE, FICP, FCSI. Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, Children’s Heart Care Centre, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, Res: ‘Aditi’ 44 A, V Main road, Vijayanagar II stage, Bengaluru -560040, Karnataka, India. Tel: 91-80-23302031, Mobile No: 094484940984; Fax: 91-80-22977236; E-mail: dr_vj@hotmail.com
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Abstract

Congenital unruptured aneurysms affecting both the right and left sinuses of Valsalva are extremely rare. To the best of our knowledge, there has been only one previously documented case. We report here a patient presenting with congestive cardiac failure who also had unruptured aneurysms of both the right and left sinuses of Valsalva. The aneurysms produced obstruction of the outflow tracts of both ventricles, burrowing as they did into the muscular ventricular septum.

Keywords

Intracardiac cystic massechocardiographycongestive cardiac failure
Type
Brief Report
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 19 , Issue 5 , October 2009 , pp. 537 - 539
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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