An Incidentally Discovered Quadricuspid Aortic Valve

Quadricuspid pulmonary valve in an adult patient: discovered incidentally upon multidetector-row computed tomography.

Quadricuspid aortic valve not discovered by transthoracic echocardiography

BACKGROUND Quadricuspid aortic valve is a rare congenital heart defect. Several different anatomical variations of a quadricuspid aortic valve has been described and aortic regurgitation is the predominant valvular dysfunction associated with quadricuspid aortic valve. CASE PRESENTATION A 68-year-old woman presented with almost a years history of increasing dyspnoea on exertion. The patient h...

Quadricuspid aortic valve.

A 57-year-old woman presented with a history of dyspnea on exertion since 4 months prior to admission. She denied chest pain. Her medical history was not significant. Physical examination revealed wide pulse pressure and arterial hypertension (170/65 mmHg). A diastolic murmur of grade 4/6 was heard at the left sternal border. ECG displayed sinus rhythm with evidence of left ventricular enlargem...

An incidentally found unusual quadricuspid pulmonary valve with transthoracic echocardiography.

postsystolic motion or shortening predict recovery of myocardial function after primary percutanous coronary intervention?. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2007;20: 505–11. 14. Lim P, Pasquet A, Gerber B, D’Hondt AM, Vancraeynest D, Gueret P et al. Is postsystolic shortening a marker of viability in chronic left ventricular ischemic dysfunction? Comparison with late enhancement contrast magnetic resonanc...

Quadricuspid aortic valve.

Daniel Hanratty*, Olatunde Farode, Adrian Ionescu and Aprim Youhana a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Morriston Hospital, Swansea, UK b Department of Cardiology, Morriston Hospital, Swansea, UK * Corresponding author. 34 St Stephens Mansions, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff CF10 5LQ, UK. Tel: +44-07815775676; e-mail: [email protected] (D. Hanratty). Received 18 February 2012; accept...