Transcatheter closure of ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm

Transcatheter closure of giant ruptured sinus of valsalva aneurysm.

A 41-year-old woman presented with paroxysmal chest pain, dyspnea, and palpitations, and a continuous heart murmur was heard over the right upper and lower sternal borders. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a giant ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm (SOVA), which had dislodged and ruptured into the right atrium adjacent to the tri-cuspid valve. The diameter of the aortic end of the defec...

Transcatheter closure of ruptured sinus of valsalva aneurysm.

Percutaneous transcatheter closure of ruptured sinus of valsalva aneurysm was attempted in eight patients between January 1995 and March 2003 as an alternative strategy to surgery as this technique at present is an accepted therapeutic modality for various intracardiac defects. The age range was 14-35 years, all were male, seven in symptomatic class III and one in class IV on medical treatment....

Transcatheter closure of ruptured sinus of valsalva aneurysm using symmetrical perimembraneous VSD device

Ruptured Right Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm*

he presence of rupture of a sinus of Valsalva aneurysm can be clinically suspected when an abrupt onset of congestive heart failure is accompanied by a continuous murmur, evidence of right and left ventricular volume overload, and bounding peripheral pulses. Classically, the diagnosis has been confirmed by angiography, but several reports ruggest that M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiography...

Ruptured congenital sinus of Valsalva aneurysm.

Robert L. Smith, M.D.,∗ Anand Irimpen, M.D.,∗ Frederick R. Helmcke, M.D.,† and Edmund Kenneth Kerut, M.D.‡§ ∗Division of Cardiology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, †Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, ‡Departments of Pharmacology and Physiology, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, and ‡...