Thankachen Roy, Gnanamuthu Roy, Doshi Harikrishna, Shukla Vinayak, Korula Roy John
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore 632 004, India.
Tex Heart Inst J. 2003;30(2):152-4.
Sinus of Valsalva aneurysms rarely present until rupture occurs. We describe the case of a patient who presented with acute right heart failure and upon investigation was found to have an unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm causing right ventricular outflow obstruction; there was an associated subaortic ventricular septal defect. To the best of our knowledge, only 1 other case with these features has been reported in the medical literature. The diagnosis was made by transthoracic echocardiography and cardiac catheterization. Through an aortic and right ventricular approach, we successfully excised the aneurysmal right coronary sinus, closed the ventricular septal defect, and replaced the aortic valve.
瓦氏窦瘤很少在破裂前出现症状。我们描述了一例患者,该患者表现为急性右心衰竭,经检查发现有一个未破裂的瓦氏窦瘤导致右心室流出道梗阻,同时伴有主动脉瓣下室间隔缺损。据我们所知,医学文献中仅报道过1例具有这些特征的病例。诊断通过经胸超声心动图和心导管检查做出。我们通过主动脉和右心室入路,成功切除了右冠状动脉瘤样窦,闭合了室间隔缺损,并置换了主动脉瓣。