Surgical repair of an aortico-left ventricular tunnel with acute infective endocarditis
Sheng-Song Xu1, Kai-Hu Shi, Ji-Ming Sha
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Cardiovascular Disease Research Center of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.
Abstract:
Aortic-left ventricular tunnel is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly, which always arises from the right coronary sinus and enters the left ventricle, occasionally the right ventricle and right atrium. However, aortic and left ventricular tunnel associated with infective endocarditis is rarely seen in literatures. Here, we present a case of aortic and left ventricular tunnel associated with infective endocarditis in a 47-year-old man.
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