Rare congenital valve disease: Quadricuspid aortic valve
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Endocarditis complicating a congenital quadricuspid aortic valve.
The most common aortic valve congenital abnormality is observed in bicuspid aortic valve. Only a few cases of aortic valve quadricuspidy have been reported in the literature. We report a new case of endocarditis complicating a congenital quadricuspid aortic valve.
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of the Cardiovascular Academy
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2405-8181
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcac.2015.08.002