Sultan Mehboob, Awan Khush Bakht, Khan Asad
Paediatric Cardiology Department, Army Cardiac Center, Lahore, Pakistan.
Cardiology Department, Army Cardiac Center, Lahore, Pakistan.
Cardiol Young. 2022 May;32(5):844-848. doi: 10.1017/S1047951121004078. Epub 2021 Oct 28.
Quadricuspid aortic valve is a remarkably rare congenital cardiac anomaly that predominantly becomes regurgitant with the passage of time. Aortic valve stenosis and aortic root dilatation are less common in quadricuspid aortic valve as compared to bicuspid aortic valve. The clinical presentation depends upon the functional status of the aortic valve, left ventricular function, and associated cardiac or coronary anomalies. The quadricuspid aortic valve is easily visualised during transthoracic echocardiogram with a characteristic X pattern of aortic valve in diastole. The association of quadricuspid aortic valve with patent ductus arteriosus is exceedingly rare. We are reporting a case of young girl with mildly regurgitant quadricuspid aortic valve, large patent ductus arteriosus, and volume-loaded left heart who underwent a successful device closure of her patent ductus arteriosus. To the best of our knowledge, such a case is being reported from Pakistan for the first time.
四叶式主动脉瓣是一种极为罕见的先天性心脏异常,随着时间推移主要会出现反流。与二叶式主动脉瓣相比,四叶式主动脉瓣出现主动脉瓣狭窄和主动脉根部扩张的情况较少见。临床表现取决于主动脉瓣的功能状态、左心室功能以及相关的心脏或冠状动脉异常。在经胸超声心动图检查中,舒张期主动脉瓣呈现特征性的X形,四叶式主动脉瓣很容易被观察到。四叶式主动脉瓣与动脉导管未闭同时存在的情况极为罕见。我们报告了一例年轻女孩,患有轻度反流的四叶式主动脉瓣、大型动脉导管未闭以及容量负荷增加的左心,她成功接受了动脉导管未闭封堵术。据我们所知,这是巴基斯坦首次报道此类病例。