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Morphological and Functional Assessment of the Right Ventricle Using 3D Echocardiography
Published on: October 28, 2020
Familial unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm obstructing the right ventricular outflow tract
Paul Farand1, Marie-Claude Brochu, André Gervais
1Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada. paul.farand@usherbrooke.ca
Abstract:
A case demonstrating compression of the right ventricular outflow tract by an unruptured coronary sinus of Valsalva aneurysm in which repair resulted in symptomatic improvement is presented. The pathology report revealed that the patient's younger brother had died from a ruptured aneurysm of the coronary sinus of Valsalva. The present report is the first to describe a familial unruptured coronary sinus of Valsalva aneurysm raising questions regarding the screening of relatives of patients with sinus of Valsalva aneurysms of unknown etiology.
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