title: Acute aortic insufficiency due to rupture of an aortic valve commissure.
abstract: Myxomatous degeneration generally involves the atrioventricular valves (mitral and tricuspid). Rarely, it may affect the aortic or pulmonary valve. We report a case of an acute severe aortic insufficiency due to a rupture of a commissure of the aortic valve in a patient who had previously undergone mitral valve surgery for myxomatous mitral valve prolapse.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiac Surgery Unit II, IRCCS Centro Cardiologico Monzino, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Samer
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kassem
authors.forename: Gianluca
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Polvani
authors.forename: Emad
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Al Jaber
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gennari
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D000082882:Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease; D001705:Bioprosthesis; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000601:surgery; D008945:Mitral Valve Prolapse / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D016896:Treatment Outcome