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Mariah Madigan1, Sarah McIsaac1,2, Avinash Garg3
1Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract:
We report a rare case of a 44-year-old male who underwent a diagnostic coronary angiogram following a non-ST elevation myocardial infarction complicated by an aortic valve leaflet tear requiring surgical intervention. Routine transthoracic echocardiogram demonstrated a mobile echogenic structure prolapsing into the left ventricular outflow tract. An intraoperative transesophageal echocardiogram confirmed that the structure originated from the ventricular side of left coronary cusp, causing malcoaptation between left and right coronary cusps, and subsequent moderate to severe aortic regurgitation.
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