Sinus of Valsalva Fistula

Sinus of Valsalva Fistula

A 56-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department with effort dyspnea, fatigue and leg edema. The patient had a history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus and left ventricle hypertrophy and no family history of cardiac disease. The patient was fully alert with mild respiratory distress. The physical examination revealed sunken sternum, consistent with pectus ex cavatuma, crackles in th...

A sinus of Valsalva-right atrium fistula without aneurysm formation.

A 61-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of orthopnea and was diagnosed with heart failure with a continuous heart murmur. A transthoracic echocardiogram revealed turbulent flow from the right coronary sinus of Valsalva to the right atrium throughout the cardiac cycle. Aortography confirmed the presence of a shunt jet from the right coronary sinus of Valsalva to the right atrium. ...

Successful repair of sinus of Valsalva-left atrial fistula.

Sinus of valsalva aneurysm.

A 93-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of dyspnoea at rest, orthopnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea and oedema in the lower extremities during the previous four weeks. The physical examination presented rales, elevated jugular venous pressure, hyperkinetic arterial pulse and a pansystolic mild heart murmur. A transthoracic echocardiogram was performed, showing a normocontract...

Sinus of Valsalva

a large eddy, or vortex, that spins within the sinus cavity. The fluid motion within similar recirculating flows is known to be unstable with an early transition to turbulence. The stability of the aortic sinus vortex was examined in the current study in an in vitro pulsatile flow rig. The geometry of the experimental test section was the same as the geometry of the natural aortic root. Differe...