Mumtaz Muhammad A, Mee Roger B B, Qureshi Athar, Patel Chandrakant R, Younoszai Adel K
Department of Pediatric, The Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Ann Thorac Surg. 2004 Oct;78(4):1475-6. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2003.07.004.
Aortic insufficiency is not a part of the hypoplastic left heart syndrome. This report describes a rare case of congenital aortic insufficiency from a detached leaflet in a patient with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and 45,X/46XY mosaicism. The patient was subsequently treated with the modified Norwood procedure along with suture closure of aortic valve.