Ruptured Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm: Transcatheter Closure Through Retrograde Approach

The ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm (RSOV), a rare but well-recognized clinical entity, is invariably a form of left-to-right shunt due to rupture into right-sided chambers. It causes profound hemodynamic effects, especially when the rupture is acute. Like most other left-to-right shunts, it was only a matter of time before this rare defect also became amenable to transcatheter closure (TCC). Since the first report of TCC of RSOV by Cullen et al. in 1994 using the Rashkind umbrella, in recent times, there has been a spate of case reports, brief communications, and interesting case presentations at interventional meetings using the much more user-friendly and effective devices. We report a case of a 59-year-old female diagnosed with RSOV (noncoronary cusp to right atrium) treated with device closure by using a vascular plug through a retrograde approach without resorting to the usual antegrade technique involving the formation of an arteriovenous loop.