title: [Percutaneous closure of a ruptured right coronary sinus of Valsalva aneurysm].
abstract: Sinus of Valsalva aneurysm (SVA) is a rare disease that is mostly congenital in origin. The rupture of a SVA may occur and can eventually lead to death unless definite surgical treatment occurs. In this article, a ruptured and percutaneously treated SVA in a subject who underwent two consecutive corrective open cardiac surgeries due to a congenital heart disease was examined. An 18-year-old male was referred because of the complaint of dyspnea and fatigue. He underwent a complete repair of tetrology of Fallot before and a redo-repair of residual VSD three years before. A ruptured SVA was detected by transthoracic echocardiography and aortography. Percutaneous closure was successful by an Amplatzer muscular VSD occluder. Percutaneous treatment of a ruptured SVA may be an alternative technique to surgery in selected cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Sakarya University Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya, Turkey. ramazanakdemir@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ramazan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Akdemir
authors.forename: Ekrem
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yeter
authors.forename: Harun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kılıç
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Göktuğ Ertem
mesh_terms: D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000601:surgery; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000601:surgery; D001027:Aortography; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D006801:Humans; D055989:Septal Occluder Device; D012850:Sinus of Valsalva / Q000601:surgery