title: Unruptured congenital aneurysm of the sinus of Valsalva in an African population: a six-year experience at an echocardiography laboratory.
abstract: Sinus of Valsalva aneurysms (SVA) are considered rare congenital anomalies. Apart from a few reported cases of SVA in African patients, there is little information on the clinical presentation of this entity in Africans. We describe the clinical and echocardiographic features of four consecutive African patients in whom the diagnosis of SVA was established over the last six years at the echocardiography laboratory of our institution. In this report we compare the clinical and echocardiographic features in our patients with those of others published in the literature.
authors: Hospital Militar Principal, Instituto Superior, Luanda, Angola. hmorais1@gmail.com
authors: Humberto
authors: H
authors: Morais
authors: Fidel M
authors: FM
authors: Cáceres-Lóriga
authors: Telmo
authors: T
authors: Martins
authors: Georgina
authors: G
authors: Vanduném
authors: Rosa
authors: R
authors: Cunha
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000349:Africa / Q000453:epidemiology; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000208:ethnology; D044383:Black People; D002648:Child; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012850:Sinus of Valsalva / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*