Mitral-aortic intervalvular pseudoaneurysm with ventricular septal defect.
A 35-year-old woman was found on echocardiography to have a pseudoaneurysm of the mitral-aortic intervalvular fibrosa, residual ventricular septal defect, and aortic regurgitation. She had undergone surgical closure of a ventricular septal defect at age 7 and was found to have residual shunt several years later. She had been followed nonsurgically and had symptoms of cardiac failure during her 2 pregnancies. The pseudoaneurysm and the septal defect were successfully repaired.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kure Kyousai Hospital, 2-3-28 Nishichuo, Kure City, Hiroshima 737-8505, Japan. Yamamotoshu@aol.com
Shu
S
Yamamoto
Takeo
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Tedoriya
Zenichi
Z
Masuda
Tomohiro
T
Asai
Shunji
S
Sano
Masaaki
M
Kawada
D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D001021:Aortic Valve; D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve