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Surgical Management of Supravalvar Aortic Stenosis with Coronary Artery Involvement
Author(s) -
Gajjar Trushar,
Rao Jinaga Nageswar,
Desai Neelam
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.12002
Subject(s) - medicine , stenosis , cardiology , artery , ventricular outflow tract , aortic valve stenosis , aortic valve
Supravalvar aortic stenosis is characterized by an obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract distal to the aortic valve. Its association with left main coronary artery stenosis is well known but right coronary artery involvement has not been reported. We describe two cases of supravalvar aortic stenosis with coronary artery stenosis and its surgical management . (J Card Surg 2012;27:678‐681)