Title |
Surgical treatment of a giant unruptured aneurysm of the noncoronary sinus of Valsalva: a case report
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Published in |
Journal of Medical Case Reports, September 2016
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DOI | 10.1186/s13256-016-1040-2 |
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Authors |
Edvin Prifti, Fadil Ademaj, Arben Baboci, Edmond Nuellari, Aurel Demiraj, Dariel Thereska |
Abstract |
A sinus of Valsalva aneurysm is a rare cardiac anomaly which may be acquired or congenital. The main associated symptoms are conduction disturbances, myocardial ischemia, and syncopes. In this report we describe a 52-year-old Albanian woman from Kosovo with an unruptured aneurysm of 74×60 mm of the noncoronary sinus of Valsalva presenting dyspnea, jugular distension, and tachycardia due to cardiac compression. She underwent successful closure of the orifice and sinus remodeling with a Dacron patch. To the best of our knowledge this is the largest reported isolated unruptured aneurysm of the coronary sinus causing severe compression of the cardiac chambers undergoing successful surgical correction. |
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