QUADRICUSPID AORTIC-VALVE - A CONGENITAL DEFECT LEADING TO PATHOLOGICAL-CHANGES

Authors
VICOL C RUPP G STRUCK E
Citation
C. Vicol et al., QUADRICUSPID AORTIC-VALVE - A CONGENITAL DEFECT LEADING TO PATHOLOGICAL-CHANGES, Zeitschrift fur Kardiologie, 86(7), 1997, pp. 538-540
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
Zeitschrift fur Kardiologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
03005860
Volume
86
Issue
7
Year of publication
1997
Pages
538 - 540
Database
ISI
SICI code
0300-5860(1997)86:7<538:QA-ACD>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
We report on a 61-year-old patient with considerable insufficiency of a quadricuspid aortic valve and coronary three vessel disease. The con genital quadricuspid aortic valve has become symptomatic due to the de velopment of (post-endocarditic) insufficiency only in the advanced st age of life. It was treated by replacement of the aortic valve and byp ass myocardial revascularization. The physiopathology of quadricuspid aortic valve will be discussed.