title: Surgical treatment for an asymptomatic and unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm: report of a case.
abstract: A 70-year-old male underwent a transthoracic echocardiography as a screening test for hypertension and an unruptured aneurysm was detected in the right sinus of Valsalva. The right sinus of Valsalva aneurysm obstructed the right ventricle outflow tract but he did not have any symptoms. The sinus of Valsalva aneurysm was treated successfully by a patch closure with a bovine pericardial patch.
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Surgery, Tohoku Kosei Nenkin Hospital, 1-12-1 Fukumuro Miyaginoku, Miyagi, Sendai, 983-8512, Japan, minagawa@tohoku-knhp.ne.jp.
authors.forename: Tadanori
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Minagawa
authors.forename: Suguru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Keisuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kanda
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Miura
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tabayashi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001705:Bioprosthesis; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D002417:Cattle; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010496:Pericardium / Q000637:transplantation; D012850:Sinus of Valsalva / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome