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Acute Aortic Insufficiency due to Rupture of an Aortic Valve Commissure
Author(s) -
Kassem Samer,
Polvani Gianluca,
Al Jaber Emad,
Gennari Marco
Publication year - 2014
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.12276
Subject(s) - medicine , commissure , cardiology , aortic valve , mitral valve , surgery , anatomy
Myxomatous degeneration generally involves the atrioventricular valves (mitral and tricuspid). Rarely, it may affect the aortic or pulmonary valve. We report a case of an acute severe aortic insufficiency due to a rupture of a commissure of the aortic valve in a patient who had previously undergone mitral valve surgery for myxomatous mitral valve prolapse. doi: 10.1111/jocs.12276 (J Card Surg 2014;29:497–498)