title: Transthoracic minimally invasive closure for the treatment of ruptured sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm: a case report.
abstract: Ruptured sinus of the valsalva aneurysm (RSVA ) is a rare cardiac anomaly. Nearly 80% of patients will have symptom when RSVA ruptures into one of the cardiac chambers. The conventional treatment of RSVA is surgical repair under cardio-pulmonary bypass (CPB) or percutaneous catheter closure. Here, we present one case of RSVA undergo transthoracic minimally invasive closure, which is a novel methods for the treatment of RSVA. We describe a thirty four-year-old Asian man with chest pain and palpitation for 3 days. Echocardiography showed that RSVA presented in the right coronary cusp. The sinus opened into the right atrium, and the diameter of the opening was 5 mm. The opening was successfully closed by transthoracic minimally invasive closure with a ventricular septal defect (VSD) occluder.
authors: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Linyi People's Hospital, 27 Jiefang Road, Lanshan District, PO Box: 276000, Linyi, Shandong Province, China. cxingxu@163.com.
authors: Xingxu
authors: X
authors: Cao
authors: Fengwei
authors: F
authors: Zhang
authors: Lingling
authors: L
authors: Wang
authors: Hao
authors: H
authors: Jing
authors: Naiyan
authors: N
authors: Li
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012850:Sinus of Valsalva; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*